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Nov 15, 2010

karen rated it:

more survivals for me! this book wasn't as fun as the first one - the book seemed less immediate than hatchet. maybe because of the way it was presented; as a "what if", rather than a regular story, the stakes seem lower, even though it is exactly the same. it's more like a writer's exercise than a proper story. or maybe i am reading too many woodsy type books too closely together. i will pause now and get on with my summer of classix. teeny books, get thee behind me!

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Oct 21, 2008

David rated it:

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Mar 05, 2009

Nathan rated it:

Again, I review that I love these books, not only am I a Gary Paulsen Fan, but I also like survival books; and if you like survival this book is not for you. The book takes you back to the spot where we left Brian, the Canadian Wilderness. This time instead of setting the radio transmitter of Gary Paulsen writes about a diffrent ending to the book Hatchet. Brian finds the survival kit and continues to hunt for small game and "fowl bird" as he calls it. Brian knows that the seasons are More...

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Apr 01, 2009

Alberto rated it:

I´ve learned about this book a lot. Now, when i hear someone has been stranded out in the wilderness, I always think about Brian. This book teaches you have to do a lot of things and speccially never give up and less when your life is on the line. I also liked that the book was very interesting, for example when Brian was attacked by a moose or how he learned to make snowshoes. I really like adventure stories and even more survival stories, and this book covers all of it. I think it was very int More...

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Mar 09, 2009

Matt rated it:

What would've happened if Brian had never been rescued by the helicopter and had to stay for the winter? "Brian's Winter" was a book that showed me that someone can survive out in the wilderness. Brian was boy in his teens that got stranded in an island. Winter was coming soon so he had to build shelter. With his imagination in his left pocket, he made a little hut out of dried mud. He sometimes came in conflict with a bear that wreaked his hut, but other than that, it was safe. The wa More...

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Feb 06, 2012

Carley rated it:

"Brian's Winter" by Gary Paulsen picks up where the character Brian left off, had he not been rescued. In his foreward, Paulsen said that he received "as many as 200 letters a day" from readers saying that they felt that Brian's story was not finished, that he was rescued before things got really tough. In order to read this novel, you have to read it with the pretense that when he retrieved the survival pack from the plane, he did not turn on the radio signal. With wi More...

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Nov 09, 2011

Austin rated it:

Brains winter was an amazing book. I think that it picked up great after the book Hatchet with Brian alone stranded in the wilderness. Brian can tell that the seasons are changing and that summer is gone. He is stuck in fall time, with a loss of time because he has been spoiled by his survival pack that he had got from the plane. His rifle soon broke while out hunting and he had ate all of his dry food and was forced to find another way to continue to hunt for bigger game than just with his " More...

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Oct 26, 2011

Gallion added it

Alright so the book I have read is
Brains winter
Author: is Gary Paulsen
Publishing information: it was published February 9, 1996

Type: It is a science fiction
The theme: survival
Spoiler alert!
Back ground: A guy named brain his plane crashed and he needs to survive in wilderness
Summarizing: alright so the book starts out that he is going on a trip on like a really small air plane the air plane crashes and brain lives and he needs to surviv More...

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Oct 12, 2011

Caroline rated it:

I read The Hatchet when I was in middle school and enjoyed the book. While I still like the character of Brian as well as Paulsen's writing style, I thought that this re-write of the ending of The Hatchet was not worth the read. It was really hard to get over the fact that this book was now pretending that Brian wasn't really saved from isolation simply to indulge Paulsen in telling some more narrating of Brian's treking through the woods. Ultimately, the ending is the same and nothing really More...

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May 26, 2011

Robert added it

Read by Malinda, Summer 2006:
"The book that I read this week was Brian’s Winter by Gary Paulsen. I picked this book to read because I had read the book that came before it in the series with a student that I was tutoring. This book is about a 13 year old boy who is in a plain crash. The small plain that he is flying in goes down in a small lake and the pilot is killed. The plain crash does not happen in this book but you are given enough information to know that it happened. Brian ha More...

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Mar 20, 2011

Janette added it

This was one of the few books my son willingly read during elementary school, so I would recommend it to boys on that merit alone. I finally got around to listening to it on CD and had a few thoughts on it.

1) It would be really hard to write a book with only one character. Paulsen does it pretty well. I don't think I'll ever try it.
2) I bet Paulsen did all the things that he writes about. I mean, I could totally see him putting together a pair of snow shows from branches and More...

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Nov 19, 2010

Michelle rated it:

Have you ever wondered how you would survive if you found yourself alone in the wilderness? Where would you would you find water? How would you defend yourself against predators? What would you eat? Well, find out if a 13 year old teenager survives the Canadian wilderness read Brian’s Winter, READ, READ, READ!

This story is about a teenager boy named Brian who found himself in the wilderness from a plane crash, without warm clothing and food for the Winter. He is trying More...

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Dec 24, 2009

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Did you enjoy the book?
I loved the Brian’s winter it’s so descriptive. It makes you feel like Brian your Brian himself like when he tears the flesh from his fingers after he fires his bow. That’s why I love Brian’s winter it’s a fantastic book.
Did the book end the way you expected?
The book didn’t end the way I expected. I expected Brian to stay in the wilderness it seemed like Brian liked the woods. I think Brian liked the fishing and hunting More...

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Aug 20, 2011

Nathan W. rated it:

At the end of Hatchet, Im thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson, who has been trapped in the Canadian wilderness after a plane accident, decides to dive for supplies from the submerged aircraft. I almost drown. I recover, among other things, an emergency transmitter. Within hours, a pilot receives the beacon and rescues me. The book ends with a note that I, learn wilderness survival through trial and error, probably would not have survived the upcoming harsh winter.
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Jan 12, 2011

Kaleb added it

This is a book that I can always reread, so I read it once more. Brian is on a plane to his father's, but things take a turn for the worst. The pilot has a heart-attack and so Brian is all alone left with the challenge ahead. Thinking quickly he decides to land the plane on a lake to keep from dying. The plane crashes into the water, but Brian is able to escape with only the hatchet he was wearing. Brian realizes that winter isn't far off and quickly begins making preparations. He builds a shelt More...

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Dec 08, 2009

Josiah rated it:

This book is almost the equal of its predecessor Hatchet, and in my mind, to reach such a level of accomplishment twice is very impressive.

As with Hatchet, Brian's Winter is a powerfully evocative, supremely sensual experience, bringing the reader into a world in which the bitter frigidity of the cold, the mad panic of being run down by a furious five hundred pound moose, the deep, insanely driving hunger of days and weeks on end without proper nourishment, and the awesome splendo More...

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May 22, 2011

Jane rated it:

I thoroughly enjoyed this young adult survival adventure fiction (and I’m much older than that).

STORY BRIEF:
This is a sequel to Hatchet and should be read after Hatchet. At the end of Hatchet, Brian is rescued in the Fall after surviving 54 days alone in the Canadian wilderness. It was a hugely successful book, and many readers wanted to know how Brian would have survived in the winter. So the author wrote this sequel. It starts where Hatchet ends with the difference being More...

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Dec 09, 2010

Jessica rated it:

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Topics: Wilderness Survival

This novel should be read in companion with Hatchet. It answer the question: What if Brian hadn’t been rescued at the end of winter? In Pualsen style, Brian is on another adventure of survival. Stuck in the Canadian wilderness Brian has missed one of the most important signs nature was giving him: summer was ending. In this phase of Brian’s story he already pretty good at surviving, but he must glean off the wolves so he can have eno More...

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Mar 30, 2010

Jason rated it:

This book is part of a series in the Brian books, like Hatchet. It is about a kid named Brian Robeson that learns how to survive in the wilderness with only a hatchet. The more he learns the more he gets smarter. He learns how to create weapons and his hunting skills improve as days go by. This book is a kind of book that once you start reading you cannot put it down or just leave it, because the further you go into the book the more you want to read it. It is intense. I have learned that in sur More...

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May 03, 2011

Michael 4th added it

I thought that Brians Winter was a great book. It was amazing in my opinion. I loved it! I thought it was my favorite wilderness survivale book I have read. It explains how Brian survived in the dangerous forrests of Alaska. It was amazing how Gary Paulsen explained what Brian did and how he did it. In the first book "Hachet" Brian got saved at the end. But in this book it explores what if Brian didn't get saved and he had to face his biggest obstacle in the survivle The Winter. It was More...

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Aug 08, 2011

Carin rated it:

I never would have thought that I'd skip the second book in a series and go to the third, but in this series it kind of makes sense. The third book after Hatchet, goes back and erases the end of Hatchet when Brian was saved, and takes him into winter. I'm really glad Mr. Paulsen did this, as I did think when Brian was rescued just at the end of summer, that it was a bit of a cop-out.

Here we get more survival skills, more of Brian learning about the world, and relying on his ingenuity More...

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Mar 11, 2011

T.J. rated it:

When I learned that Paulsen wrote an alternate ending to The Hatchet one in which Brian was not rescued before winter, I was like: "What? What?" An alternate universe. I'm there. I will have to say that I like how this ending better. In The Hatchet Paulsen ended the book by going through how the being lost in the woods affected him for a lifetime; I think he should have done the same here. Oh well.

The Hatchet was originally followed by The River (Which I've read so long ago.) More...

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Apr 23, 2009

Marcelo rated it:

This book of Brians winter is the sequel of Hatchet this book was written by Gary Paulsen because the readers that read hatchet did not like it because he made the impossible so he wrote a book that said what would happen if brian would not be rescued. Brian constructs winter shelters to protect him from the freezing winter that was coming, he builds snow shoes with help of the trees using their branches and leaves, brian is attacked by a moose and he gets the way to escape from it by not gettin More...

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Sep 21, 2010

Abby rated it:

After Gary Paulson’s book, The Hatchet, he received an overwhelming response from readers who wanted to know what would have happened if Brian hadn’t been rescued so soon. So, Brian’s Winter, picks up before the end of The Hatchet. Brian is stranded in the wilderness after surviving a plane crash, which left the pilot dead. Brian pulls together all of his survival skills and forages food left behind by the wolves, befriends a skunk, survives more than one encounter with a bear, and shoots a m More...

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Nov 29, 2010

Susie rated it:

In the prologue Gary Paulsen says he received a lot of letters saying they thought Brian had been rescued too soon and they thought it would be more of a survival story if he had been there all winter too. Paulson said the summer story was necessary to this because if Brian hadn’t learned to live in the summer he wouldn’t have made it in the winter.

I love that he ends up with a skunk as his best friend and lifesaver. I liked this one but not as much as Hatchet as it felt a little rus More...

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Oct 26, 2011

bryan rated it:

Book review
SPOILER ALERT

My book review is about the book called Brians Winter by Gary Paulson. The type of book I would say is nonfiction. It is and alternate ending to the book hatchet. It is in the canadian wilderness. Brian doesn’t know how to survive, being a city boy.
Also by Gary Paulson. Brian is not rescued and has to take on winter in the wilderness. He doesn’t know winter, he only know the winter in the city, where he was from. Before the crash. He has to mak More...

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Nov 30, 2011

Sophia rated it:

I think it was an awesome book because it is so detailed and Gary Paulson makes an event that was one minute into a whole chapter long! This book is about what would have happened if Brian did not get rescued in the end of Hatchet. Brian has changed so much since he first got to this new land.For example, he can kill a bird, deer, and moose by shooting them with a bow and arrow! For a bird, he shoots it, breaks it's neck, and just goes to the pond to wash the blood off his hands like nothing jus More...

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Aug 02, 2011

Josh H. rated it:

Do you think that you will be able to survive a very deadly Canadian winter? All alone? Well this is what Brian had to go through. He will have to survive on his own will making his own fires, getting his own food and living a new lifestyle. Then when he hears all animals around him he gets very nervous. All of a sudden “BAM” he doesn’t know what hits him. A moose knocks him straight down to the snow with only a couple cuts and bruises. He is very lucky he had his arrow heads and bow next to him More...

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Apr 21, 2011

Katie rated it:

We listened to this audiobook in the car and it was the perfect length - 3 disks. Definitely read or listen to 'Hatchet' first since this is an alternative ending to that book and it assumes you have read that one first. In Hatchet, Brian is left on his own to survive somewhere in the Canadian North after his plane crashes. This book is what Brian might have had to do to survive through a northern winter on his own (if he hadn't been rescued at end of summer as he was in Hatchet.) I love these More...

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Nov 10, 2011

Austinhunter added it

I really like this book because it is about a teenage boy who is still trying to survive in the canadian wilderness. But in this book it is talking about the boy having to survive in one of the harshest winters in the world. Because this book is about somebody trying to survive in the wilderness it tells some survival tips, when he is doing that certain thing. It explains what he is doing in so much detail that you can actually visualize n your head exactly what is happening so it is like watchi More...

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