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Hatchet (Brian's Saga #1)

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Since it was first published in 1987, the story of thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson's survival following a plane crash has become a modern classic. Stranded in the desolate wilderness, Brian uses his instincts and his hatchet to stay alive for fifty-four harrowing days.

This twentieth-anniversary edition of Hatchet contains a new introduction and sidebar commentary by Gary

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Hardcover, 208 pages

Published April 1st 2000 by Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books (first published 1987)

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Jun 21, 2009 karen rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: teen-faves, and-so-this-is-grad-school, favorites

yes yes yes!! thank you to all the goodreaders who recommended this to me after my love for island of the blue dolphins became known. it turns out i love survival stories!! with teens!! and i wish i could say i never tore my eyes from the page and read this in an hour, but i have been having a distractedish day today; emailing my dad for fathers day (everyone: call your dads!! or if they are at work, email-chat them!) and then there was a fire across the street from me (which is my number one al...more

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May 10, 2007 Rachel rated it 1 of 5 stars Recommends it for: No one. This is the worst book I have ever read.

So when I was in the 7th grade, Mrs. Randall (formerly Sr. Mary Randall, an ex-nun) FORCED this pile of garbage upon me and the rest of my unsuspecting classmates. I was an advanced reader and it was a relatively short, easy to swallow book but it took me FOREVER TO READ IT. because it was THAT FUCKING BORING. It's about this stupid snot of a kid whose parents are getting divorced (mom and dad broke up! boo-hoo :'( i'm scarred for life now!) and somehow his plane goes down in the wilderness of C...more

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Nov 09, 2011 Lady Danielle aka The Book Huntress rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Fans of survival novels

Recommended to Lady Danielle aka The Book Huntress by: A member of the Action/Adventure Aficionados group

Shelves: audiobook, library-checkout, survival, middle-grade-juvenile, stranded-marooned, hero-i-loved, favorites, action-adventure, 2011-reading

I have to be honest. At first I was having a serious 'really?' moment as I started listening. The 'really?' was because this is a three-time Newberry Award winner, and I thought the prose was way too repetitive. The same word would be repeated three times. The same sentences twice. I was steeling myself to keep listening and hope it got better. It did. By the end of this novel, I totally realized why it is a Newberry Award winner.

Hatchet is a story of survival. The protagonist is a thirteen-year...more I have to be honest. At first I was having a serious 'really?' moment as I started listening. The 'really?' was because this is a three-time Newberry Award winner, and I thought the prose was way too repetitive. The same word would be repeated three times. The same sentences twice. I was steeling myself to keep listening and hope it got better. It did. By the end of this novel, I totally realized why it is a Newberry Award winner.

Hatchet is a story of survival. The protagonist is a thirteen-year-old city boy who ends up stranded in the Canadian wilderness when the pilot of the small plane he's flying in has a heart attack and dies. I have to tell you, I am very impressed with this kid. I think I would have freaked like nobody's business. He does freak out at first (and I don't blame him), but ultimately shows a fortitude that inspires awe in this reader. He goes from a scared, helpless boy to a survivor. The Brian that was has to be broken down and reassembled into a Brian that can survive his new reality. He learns how to meet his needs in the harsh wilderness, and he comes out of it forever changed.

I love reading books/watching tv shows and movies about surviving. I don't know why, really. I don't even go camping or hiking, although I love the outdoors. I think it's because I love the idea of a person being resourceful and pitting their skills and mentality against the unprejudiced, often unsympathetic wild. Not conquering it, but learning to live in harmony, becoming a part of a vast ecosystem in a way that we can't do stuck in our comfortable city and surburban environs, another entity in the web of life. I would definitely recommend this book if you are of a similar mind.

I liked that Brian doesn't get it too easy. Not at all. He has to learn from his mistakes, and take the advantages that providence sends his way. He learns to keep food in his belly, to make a secure shelter, and to appreciate and anticipate the dangers of his environment. And in the process, he finds peace. He looks inside and finds his true self. That's what solitude and a oneness with nature will bring. I have always felt my most at peace in two places: in a spirit-filled church or by myself and with my heart open in prayer; and outside, surrounded by nature. So I really appreciated this aspect of the book. Brian starts out a boy who is emotionally lost at sea when his father and mother divorce, weighted down with the knowledge of his mother's infidelity; and finds that what seemed like tragedy and the end of his world will not conquer him. If he can survive the harsh elements of nature, all by himself, he can live with his family's fragmentation, and live to see the next day and the days after that.

I think this book is a metaphor for life. Life is harsh and we have to grow and change to survive it. We can't give up, descend into pity, and expect to be saved. We have to be strong and fight to save ourselves, whether it's physically, mentally, or emotionally.

Although this book had a very shaky start, I do have to agree that this is a winner. And I tell you what, this young man had a lot of lessons to teach me, lessons he learns the hard way. That's the power of a good fiction novel for me.(less)

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Nov 02, 2007 Joseph rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Everyone

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basically, Biran is the main character in the story, he is getting on a plane to go visit his father; his parents are divorced. he also has a giant burden on his back, his mother was having an affair.
before he leaves , his mother gives him a hatchet. after, he sets off, he talks with the pilot and has a little fun by piloting the airplane swerving and swoppoing up and down. until suddenly, the pilot has a heartattack becasue of gas and dies. brian is forced to fly the plane himself, but until t...more basically, Biran is the main character in the story, he is getting on a plane to go visit his father; his parents are divorced. he also has a giant burden on his back, his mother was having an affair.
before he leaves , his mother gives him a hatchet. after, he sets off, he talks with the pilot and has a little fun by piloting the airplane swerving and swoppoing up and down. until suddenly, the pilot has a heartattack becasue of gas and dies. brian is forced to fly the plane himself, but until the fuel runs out, he stops at a lake to kind of softne the impact.
he wakes upon a beach.
this starts him on his new journey, a journey to survive. this is kind of a rebirth for him; he learns to do things he would nt neccesarily do in life, but now that he has to, he is. he learns how to survive, he fends off cretures such as skinks, porcupines, bears, and mooses; he is able to be keep himself from starvation by findinf food among trees and the creatures of the wild such as fowls and rabbits and fish. he also creates his own shelter, fire,, his own weapons for hunting, a pond for which he keeps a stock of fish, and a list of things he makes so that his life is a little bit ore easier than it is in the wild( even though its not that easy in the first place). basically, one day, a tornado rips his location apart. he still survives, but when he goes outside, he sees that the plane he flew in was flipped up. he then figures out that there was a survival pack in the back of the plane; he goes and retireves it.
after hard work, he ravages through the bag. he finds his own riches such as pots and pans, food, guns, radio which he immedialitey uses. he then feasts on packs of food and drink from the survival pack.
until a plane comes and lands in the lake. he steps out and sees brian.
the stroy ends with the epilouge wchich tells of brian and how he was the kid people had been looking for for over two months. how he had no fat in hsi body anymore and exploited the area in which he lived in and ws able to survive in.

i really enjoyed this story. it seems like one of the stories that you know you can learn from if youre ever in brians situation. i know that if i was in the wilderness near a lake, i could proibably reenact his actions to survive; but id most defintiely need a hatchet, or he and i would naver ever be able to pull anything off. .....awesome story:)(less)

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Oct 03, 2012 Eric_W rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: anyone who liked Swiss Family Robinson

Shelves: miscellaneous

As many of you might know, I abhor the YA designation, believing it to be a form of segregation that simply makes it a target for the Comstockians of the world, witness recent calls for YA books to be more wholesome and less dark. That many so-called YA titles deal with issues that should be of concern to teens seems of little concern to those who want to prevent their sixteen-year-olds from reading about what they experience everyday. The YA designation, I suspect, has, in the past, steered man...more As many of you might know, I abhor the YA designation, believing it to be a form of segregation that simply makes it a target for the Comstockians of the world, witness recent calls for YA books to be more wholesome and less dark. That many so-called YA titles deal with issues that should be of concern to teens seems of little concern to those who want to prevent their sixteen-year-olds from reading about what they experience everyday. The YA designation, I suspect, has, in the past, steered many adult readers away from books so designated, not wanting to be seen as stooping below their level. (I use young adult and adult only in their chronological sense, certainly not from the standpoint of maturity level.)

Our reading club decided to discuss a couple of books that had been enjoyed by some of our members from that standpoint. We chose two: Hatchet and Waiting to Forget (review to follow), each in its own way a survival novel, both in a wilderness, but one made of trees, the other of people.

The differences are substantial with Waiting to Forget much more adult both in content and style. Hatchet is a great story for 10 year-olds (and young 60 year-olds) about a young boy (age thirteen) being sent to his father in Canada following a nasty divorce. The pilot of the single engined plane dies of a heart attack, and young Brian must find a way to stay alive in the wilderness (a remarkably non-hostile environment with the exception of a moose and tornado) with only a hatchet fortuitously given to him by his mother for survival. The book is told in third-person from Brian’s perspective so it’s hardly a spoiler to say young Brian, a very smart kid, indeed, survives by using his wits and, fortuitously, the hatchet given to him by his mother as a present before he left to visit his father.

It's a good survival story although some of the elements like "the Secret" were peripheral and distracted from the story line. The Epilogue was totally unnecessary and redundant, I thought. The last line before it would have made a perfect ending. My understanding is that Paulson followed up with the success of Hatchet with a couple of sequels.

As I read this enjoyable little book, I wondered if Paulson had become enamored of Tom Brown who achieved some fame as being a great “tracker” and wilderness expert. Raised in the Jersey Pine Barrens, he was ostensibly the grandson of an Apache named “Stalking Wolf.”(I'm not kidding.) Brown wrote several pieces on wilderness survival for Mother Jones in the eighties. I remember several nature types on the faculty asking me to order his books many years ago, although the luster seemed to tarnish some when it was learned Brown was fond of smoking.

Looking up Tom Brown for this review I discovered he has capitalized on his knowledge. http://www.trackertrail.com/tombrown/...

Tom Brown books: Tom Brown's Field guide to wilderness survival and Tracker and Tom Brown's Field Guide To Living With The Earth (less)

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Jan 03, 2008 Henry rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: boys and tomboys the world over (and any adult counterpart suffering nostalgia)

My first foray into childhood favorites for one unlikely-to-succeed purpose: converting my brother from books about Harry Potter to books about anything else, in the world. Any suggestions?

When I first read Hatchet, at around ten or twelve, I devoured it time and time again. The idea of learning wilderness survival with nothing but a hatchet and my own wits prickled the pores of my baby-smooth chest with visions of man-hair, tufts and tufts of it, more than I knew what to do with, for after fini...more

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Oct 28, 2007 Max Stone rated it 4 of 5 stars

(fwiw this is a book I read my kids aged 6-10)

I'd give this book 3.5 stars if I could. Basically the stuff which makes it a classic and is indeed very good is the adventure/survival stuff (he is the sole survivor of a plane crash deep in the woods and has nothing but a hatchet). Both the details of what he is doing to survive, and the psychological changes he goes through in his attempt to survive are believable, interesting, and illuminating.

There is a second thread in the book which is him pro...more

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Mar 09, 2010 Mallory rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: realistic-fiction, award-winners

Awards Won: Newbery Honor (1988), William Allen White Children's Book Award (Kansas) (1990), Young Hoosier Book Award for 6-8 (1991), Buckeye Children's Book Award for 6-8 (1991), Massachusetts Children's Book Award (1995), Flicker Tale Children's Book Award (1990), Sequoyah Book Award for Young Adult (1990), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (1989), Virginia Readers' Choice for Middle (1989), Golden Archer Award (1989), Soaring Eagle Book Award (1997)

This is an excellent book for b...more

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Jul 03, 2011 Monique rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011, award-winners, children-s, fiction

I will be honest: I didn't really enjoy this book. And I even had high expectations because it's the recipient of the Newbery Honor.

I had just read “The Life of Pi” a few weeks ago and enjoyed it immensely despite its otherwise relatively boring, dialogue-less narrative – one that can be expected from a book about a shipwrecked teenage boy (albeit with a Bengal tiger for company). This children's book, Hatchet, had a similar plot: thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson was on his way to see his father...more

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Jan 14, 2008 Mc Mac McDougall rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Everyone its a very good book

Recommended to Mc Mac by: a teacher

This book is the Hatchet written by Gary Paulson. It is about a boy who goes to see his dad in Canada for a trip but things go terribly wrong. He is in a bush plane when the pilot has a heart attack and dies. Brian is forced to fly and land the plane on an L shaped lake. He has to face the wilderness on his own for a long period of time. Some of the problems he faces is getting food from the wilderness. At first all he has is his hatchet and the cloths on his back but after a while he starts ki...more

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Sep 22, 2007 Jeane rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: yaliteraturejournal

Paulsen, Gary (1987). Hatchet. New York: Aladdin Paperbacks. 186 pages.

Summary and Evaluation: One summer day thirteen year-old Brian Robeson sets off on a journey to visit his father in northern Canada. Not long into the flight the unthinkable happens -- the plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness and Brian, the lone survivor, is faced with having to survive on his own with only one possession, a hatchet. Through this ordeal Brian learns important life skills including patience, thoughtfulness...more

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Feb 14, 2009 Faith rated it 1 of 5 stars

Though the story was compelling, very compelling, compelling enough that I finished it despite the compelling urge to throw it out the window, I don't think I could ever read it again. The window, oh the shiny window, the shiny open window was very tempting. This book was so repetitious, why so repetitious, I know not why this book was so repetitious, but the repetitions made me want to pull my hair out. My brown hair, the brown hair on my head, the hair that was brown that was on my head.

I did...more

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Dec 04, 2007 Nichole Sedler added it Recommends it for: 4th-7th

Shelves: realistic-fiction, chapter

Written by Gary Paulsen, published by Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books, 1987.

Summary: A story about a young boy whose family is torn apart by divorce. He travels on a prop plane to see his dad in Canada but during the flight, the pilot suffers a heart attack and dies. Brian crashes the plane into a lake and amazingly survives the crash. The novel follows his transformation through surviving 54 days in the wilderness before he is rescued.

Response: I loved this story. I think intermediate elementar...more

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Sep 23, 2010 John rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

When Brian's plane crash lands in the Canadian wilderness, Brian must learn to survive in the forest all by himself with only his clothes and a hatchet given to him by his mum...

I wouldn't say this was the best book I've read but I wouldn't say it was one of the worst. This book gives you that feel that 'you're all alone in an unknown place with who knows what kind of dangers there may be'. And yes, it did make me a little scared. But despite the rather, in my opinion, boring ending of the book,...more

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Feb 15, 2009 Nathan Simpson rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Everyone who likes survival books

Recommended to Nathan by: Slef-recomended

Shelves: book-club

The Story sets off in a single engine plane, Brian Robenson the main character sitting in the cockpit beside a pilot that he does not know the name to. Brian is hurting down ddep inside when the story flashbacks to a memory when he saw his mother with another guy at the mall, there is more to the story but that is all Brian's recollection to the flashback at that moment. A few weeks later his mother demands for a divorce. Soon he is forced to leave on plane to see his father in Cananada. Right b...more

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Dec 04, 2011 Marina rated it 4 of 5 stars

Oh my gosh, I just looked up Hatchet, and there were more Hatchet books so Brian must survive. The titals were things like, Hatchet and Brian's Winter, Hacthet The Truth, and Hacthet, Brians Return. I wonder if Brians Return was the book where he finnaly returns home? It did say that was book number 4 and there were no book 5 that I saw.(P.S Mrs. Browning, this is not my weekley book review, it's the Maze Runner.)help!

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Jan 10, 2013 Shruti S rated it 5 of 5 stars

HATCHET by Gary Paulsen

Brain doesn't think his life will ever be the same after his parents get divorced but his life is about to take an even bigger twist as the plain he is on crashes into Canadian wilderness. alone in the wild, stranded on a piece of jutting out land Brain will try his hardest to survive. Throughout the book I admired his constant positive attitude even when he felt like giving up because without it he would have been dead. It was amazing to read about the number of ways Bra...more

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Sep 16, 2012 Kim rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult, audiobook, fiction, survival-stories, newbery-honor-award, edes-546, stacs-bookshelf

Unabridged. Narrated by Peter Coyote. Released: 1992-10-01. Publisher: Listening Library. Length: 3 hours 37 minutes. File size: 51 MB. File Format: format 4 (standard).

First of five in the Hatchet series: Brian's Saga. Originally published September 30, 1987. Available in hardcover and paperback. Published by Bradbury Press.

Brian Robenson, a thirteen year old boy, is traveling in a small plane to visit his father in the oil fields in Canada, when his plane crashes due to complications with the...more

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Feb 01, 2013 Matthew Doucette rated it 3 of 5 stars

I enjoyed this book. This is the second time I have read it. The story is about a boy (brian) who survives a plane crash and then has to survive by himself in the wilderness. There are little hints about how to survive, but what i enjoyed about this book was his realization that everything in life is about food. You need food to survive. Without food, you die. You dont have strength to do anything but also you will just die of starvation. Throughout the book you are rooting for this kid as he fi...more

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Feb 15, 2009 Sara rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Sara by: Steven Wren

Shelves: young-readers

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Apr 09, 2009 Lucy rated it 3 of 5 stars

For the last few months, I have been going into my son's classroom and reading with a small group for an hour. This is exactly my kind of volunteering. We each take turns reading aloud and when the hour is up, we mark our place for the next week.

Our group, which contained five boys and myself, read The Hatchet, a book about 13 year-old Brian Robeson, who survives in the Canadian wilderness for months after the airplane he was traveling in to visit his father crashes - in large part because he ha...more

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Jan 14, 2008 Josh Fugate rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: everyone

The noval Hatchet is one of my favorite books of all time. This is a fictional adventure book. It is about a boy named Brian Robeson. After finding out about the divorce of his parents, he is emotionaly damaged. On his way to the airport, to visit his father, Brians mother gives him a gift. The gift was a hatchet, a very well crafted hatchet. On the plane to his father's house he experiences the fear of all. Brian and the piolet are the only ones on the plane. The piolet has a heart attack and t...more

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Jan 14, 2008 Matt Hewelt rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: ANYONE!

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Jan 03, 2008 Michael rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: people who like the out doors

Have you ever heard of the book Hatchet? I have, and after reading that book I thought it had a lot of high-quality details that caught the reader’s attention. Once you start reading it you will not be able to suspend. Brian is the main character. In this book he ends up going on trip to Canada where his dad lives. Brian’s parents got a divorce because Brian’s mom was cheating on his dad. Before Brian left, she gave him something. It’s was a hatchet. Then the plane took off and Brian began his...more Have you ever heard of the book Hatchet? I have, and after reading that book I thought it had a lot of high-quality details that caught the reader’s attention. Once you start reading it you will not be able to suspend. Brian is the main character. In this book he ends up going on trip to Canada where his dad lives. Brian’s parents got a divorce because Brian’s mom was cheating on his dad. Before Brian left, she gave him something. It’s was a hatchet. Then the plane took off and Brian began his trip to Canada. To sum up, this is where the whole story starts.

On his way to Canada, Brian felt as if the plane ride lasted for thousands of hours. During the trip, Brian started to weep because he was thinking about his parents divorce. The pilot tried not to notice. Later, a smell lit up the entire plane. Brian turned to the pilot and noticed that he was struggling and grabbing his chest. Brian knew exactly what was going on. The pilot was having a hear attack. Suddenly, the pilot died, and brain was flying with no pilot and had no idea what to do. This is the turning point of the story, the climax.

The rest of the story I will leave for you to find out. I think this book is extremely exciting and it will make you want to read over and over again. When reading this book it is as if you were watching a movie. The book has a gloomy mood more towards the begging, but then becomes cheerful towards the end. I would recommend this book to anyone, and I would give it a four star rating. This book has lessons about survival and teaches you how much life is really worth. If you like books that lead the reader on, then this book is for you. It takes place in the woods of Canada and it is non-fiction. Brian’s tone in the story is kind of depressing and heated. He is kind of mad towards his mom. The hatchet that brains mom gave to him at the begging is the symbolism of the story. He says if there was not hatchet then there will be no life because that is the thing he needs for survival. In conclusion, this is a great book and I would defiantly recommend it.

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Nov 02, 2010 Conwaym rated it 5 of 5 stars

I choose to read this book because I have alot of freinds that have read it before and they said it was i really good boook to read.The book setting is in some canada woods.The charater in the book is just Brain the kid that is in the woods.He has to go through some hard time when he is in the woods.One thang is that he has to find food and in the begining it was hard for him to do that.The first starts eating barry and then starts fishing and eats that.In the book he git attack by a bear but he...more

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Feb 14, 2008 Ice rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book is about 'Brian' who lives with his mom. He is traveling to meet his father in Canada when the bush pilot he is flying with has a heart attack. He crashes into the Canadian wilderness and nearly dies as he escapes from the crashed plane. He then has to survive on his own with only a hatchet for a companion. He lives and works while fighting to survive and with no sign of rescue.

The author's purpose for writing this book is to show you what it is to live and what it is to become a man....more

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Jan 03, 2009 Jeff rated it 3 of 5 stars

Pretty decent story, though I think a little more exposition of the internal growth of the boy to the man would have been nice. Change seemed nearly as abrupt as Anakin to Vader in Star Wars (not a compliment).

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Nov 10, 2008 Mohammad rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book talks about a fourteen year old boy whose parents are divorced. He is on his airplane to Canada to visit his dad who resides there, until an unfortunate event occurs. The plane crashes in the wilderness between Canada and The United States. This story tells about him and his journey of survival in the wilderness.

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Sep 18, 2007 Daniel Lowder rated it 1 of 5 stars

What I learned from Hatchet:

1. If you see a man grimacing in pain, it could be a heart attack. If this man is the pilot of a charter prop plane that you're flying alone in, you could be fucked.

2. If you eat mysterious berries, they just might give you severe diarrhea. And, having just been marooned in a plane crash, you could lack the proper facilities to expel the diarrhea within. So, you could end up shitting your brains out in a cave. Since the tender age of 9, when I glanced upon the pages o...more

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Feb 24, 2012 Matthew Ramdin rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book is about a boy who is on a plane and The plane driver get a heart attack and the plane crashes! This boy only has a Hatchet and is alone in a big forest with no one to call and no one to help Him!!! READ THE BOOK AND SEE IF HE SURVIVE.

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