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Must redeem within 90 days. See full terms and conditions and this month's choices. More books from this author: Gary Paulsen. You may also like: Thriller and Mystery Staff Picks. Thank you for signing up, fellow book lover! See More Categories. Your First Name. Zip Code. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Hatchet Brian's Saga, 1. Feb 14, Faith rated it did not like it.

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 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. I did listen to it on CD, which might have been part of the problem.

Bruce said he didn't notice it as much when he read the book, but when you read it, your mind kind of skips over things, things that might be repetitious, the repetitious things might have been skipped over that make you want to pull your hair out and throw the book out the window. View all comments. May 10, Rachel rated it did not like it 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. It's about this stupid snot of a kid whose parents are getting divorced mom and dad broke up! I'd rather be faced with the zombie apocalypse or a gang of mass murdering rapists than being stuck in the middle of Canada so snot-face has to learn to survive on his own. He has a hatchet that his mom gave him though I really can't say what possessed her to give her poor no-one-wants-me warning signs of future school shootings son a HATCHET, but she does and he eventually stops crying and figures out how to pick berries and chop trees.

Or saplings. Or something. I don't know. And Mrs. Sep 18, Daniel Lowder rated it did not like it. 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. 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 What I learned from Hatchet: 1. Since the tender age of 9, when I glanced upon the pages of this book, I have had a fear in regards to shitting in the wild.

Fuck you, Gary Paulsen. View all 13 comments. Hatchet is a story about a young boy Brian struggling to survive after his plane crashes in a forest. He was traveling by airplane from the United States to Canada to see his father when the pilot suddenly had a heart attack.

As Brian strives to find ways to survive, he learns and adapts to the new environment, but he faces many challenges with animals and the elements. Left to survive Hatchet is a story about a young boy Brian struggling to survive after his plane crashes in a forest.

Gary Paulsen is one of my favorite authors, and it all started with this book, Hatchet. This book unequivocally is a favorite from childhood, and this is probably my third or fourth time reading it in my lifetime.

This story never gets old. How prepared would you be? Do you have what it takes to survive? Readers who enjoy the outdoors or those who like survival stories will likely enjoy this book. There are important lessons to learn. The writing makes this a quick and easy read, but the book explores death, survival, divorce, anger, and even suicidal thoughts.

Hatchet is a book I would personally recommend for young readers who struggle with reading or those who don't have an interest in reading.

Definitely use your own discretion on whether your reader can handle these deeper themes though. The audio by Peter Coyote is amazing and perfectly sets the tone for this book. My kids enjoyed it along with their physical copies.

View all 18 comments. Read for our classics readalong series! View all 16 comments. Author Gary Paulsen takes us through teenager Brian's 2-month survival story in the remote wilderness of Canada. Although this story is often on middle-school reading lists, amazingly, I've never read it myself, so I thought I better rectify this. Positives: 1. I could readily empathize with Brian's wonders, fears and accomplishments; 2.

Negatives: 1. Brian's encounter with the skunk was quite the head-shaker for me - even a 6-year old wouldn't have done what Brian did! View all 23 comments. Oct 12, Ahmad Sharabiani rated it really liked it Shelves: fiction , classics , adventure , 20th-century , united-states , young-adult. It is the first novel of five in the Brian's Saga series. Brian Robeson is a thirteen-year-old son of divorced parents. As he travels from Hampton, New York, to Canada to visit his estranged father when the pilot of his small prop plane suffers a heart attack.

Brian is forced to crash-land the plane in a lake--and finds himself stranded in the remote Canadian wi Hatchet Brian's Saga 1 , Gary Paulsen Hatchet is a young-adult wilderness survival novel written by American writer Gary Paulsen. Shelves: action-adventure , hero-i-loved , reading , survival , audiobook , stranded-marooned , library-checkout , favorites , middle-grade-juvenile.

I have to be honest. At first I was having a serious 'really? The 'really? 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 I have to be honest.

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 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. View all 11 comments. View all 22 comments. Jul 04, Celeste rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites , rereads , childrens-books. Some books imprint themselves on your mind and stay with you. You can remember vividly where you were when you first read them. Hatchet is one of those books for me.

I remember being in Mrs. So, when a copy finally made it back Some books imprint themselves on your mind and stay with you. So, when a copy finally made it back to the book cubbies that lined the back of the classroom, I nabbed it. And I totally saw what the fuss was about. Survival stories have been popular for centuries. So what was so special about Hatchet? It was the story of a thirteen-year-old plane-crash victim struggling to survive in the Canadian wilderness.

With nothing but his hatchet. This was a main character who was close to our age. Who was struggling to accept the recent divorce of his parents, which was something that multiple kids in our class were going through, and that the rest of us feared.

Who had absolutely none of the knowledge and skills seemingly necessary to make it in the wild. Like the rest of us. Seriously, what middle school kid would actually know what to do if they were dropped in the woods, alone, with no supplies and no tools except for a hatchet? And survive Brian does. Brian gets put through the wringer. This poor child get severely sunburned, violently ill from bad fruit, attacked by various forest dwellers, and more.

Not to mention the near starvation he is constantly battling. As a twelve-year-old, this book was terrifying and empowering and completely enthralling. So thanks, boys in my class, for getting me interested. You never know; the things you learn from this book could save your life if you ever get stranded alone in the middle of a forest. For more of my reviews, as well as my own fiction and thoughts on life, check out my blog, Celestial Musings.

View 2 comments. This is a great book. It's a good adventure story for early teens. I think it should have won the Newberry Medal for and so it goes. Brian has to survive in the Canadian Woods on his own for a summer. He learns to make fire, shelter and hunt for fish and birds. There is also a divorce theme going on as Brian's parents have recently split. This is your typical survival tale.

Brian does face some harsh environments and he learns to be tough physically and more importantly - mentally. He doesn This is a great book. He doesn't give in to feeling sorry for himself. This is very well written and there is a reason it is so popular. I will read more of the Brian Saga. View all 4 comments. Always the words. The big split. Brian hated judges as he hated lawyers. Judges that leaned over the bench and asked Brian if he understood where he was to live and why. Judges with the caring look that meant nothing as lawyers said legal phrases that meant nothing.

In the summer Brian would live with his father. In the school year with his mother. Now the plane lurched slightly to the right and Brian looked at the pilot.

He was rubbing his shoulder again and there was the sudden smell of body gas in the plane. Brian turned back to avoid embarrassing the pilot, who was obviously in some discomfort. Must have stomach troubles. His father was a mechanical engineer who had designed or invented a new drill bit for oil drilling, a self-cleaning, self-sharpening bit.

He was working in the oil fields of Canada, up on the tree line where the tundra started and the forests ended. Brian was riding up from New York with some drilling equipment—it was lashed down in the rear of the plane next to a fabric bag the pilot had called a survival pack, which had emergency supplies in case they had to make an emergency landing—that had to be specially made in the city, riding in the bushplane with the pilot named Jim or Jake or something who had turned out to be an all right guy, letting him fly and all.

Except for the smell. Now there was a constant odor, and Brian took another look at the pilot, found him rubbing the shoulder and down the arm now, the left arm, letting go more gas and wincing.

Probably something he ate, Brian thought. His mother had driven him from the city to meet the plane at Hampton where it came to pick up the drilling equipment. A drive in silence, a long drive in silence. Two and a half hours of sitting in the car, staring out the window of the plane. Once, after an hour, when they were out of the city she turned to him. How could he tell her what he knew? So he had remained silent, shook his head and continued to stare unseeing at the countryside, and his mother had gone back to driving only to speak to him one more time when they were close to Hampton.

She reached over the back of the seat and brought up a paper sack. Inside there was a hatchet, the kind with a steel handle and a rubber handgrip. The head was in a stout leather case that had a brass—riveted belt loop. There were some farm trucks on the roads now and she had to weave through them and watch traffic.

You know. In the woods with your father. See how it looks on your belt. Those were the normal things he would say. But her voice was thin, had a sound like something thin that would break if you touched it, and he felt bad for not speaking to her. Knowing what he knew, even with the anger, the hot white hate of his anger at her, he still felt bad for not speaking to her, and so to humor her he loosened his belt and pulled the right side out and put the hatchet on and rethreaded the belt.

She nodded. My little scout. Because it was a bush flight from a small airport there had been no security and the plane had been waiting, with the engine running when he arrived and he had grabbed his suitcase and pack bag and run for the plane without stopping to remove the hatchet. So it was still on his belt. At first he had been embarrassed but the pilot had said nothing about it and Brian forgot it as they took off and began flying.

More smell now. Brian turned again to glance at the pilot who had both hands on his stomach and was grimacing in pain, reaching for the left shoulder again as Brian watched. Bad aches. Thought it was something I ate but. Even Brian could see how bad it was—the pain drove the pilot back into the seat, back and down.

And then he knew. Brian knew. Oh God, my chest is coming apart! The pilot was having a heart attack. He had gone down and screamed about his chest. An old man.