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Paulsen, Gary
HATCHET
New York : Puffin, 1988.
IL 5-8 RL 6.3
ISBN 0027701301

(2 booktalks)

Booktalk #1

Brian Robeson is flying to visit his dad. The pilot has a heart attack and Brian crash lands the plane in the middle of the Canadian wilderness. For 54 days in the wild, armed only with a hatchet, we watch Brian fight for survival.

Booktalk #2

When my teacher started handing out the books to my class i looked at the cover. It was very dull. It looked boring but to my surprise the book is not boring at all!!!
                    Brian Robeson is a thirteen year-old boy. His parents are divorced. He is sitting next to a pilot on a Cessna 406 heading to Canada to see his dad.
                    The pilot has a heart-attack and Brian is left to fly it. Now if you were a 13 year old and you didnt know how to fly a plan would you panic?? Well the plane ended up crashing and Brian is the sole surviver. The only thing he has is the clothes on his back and the Hatchet his mother gave him.
                    It is an excellent book i recomend it to teachers as a novel study. (Gr.6-8)  (Daria M. student, gossip_gal21@hotmail.com)

SUBJECTS:     Survival -- Fiction
                        Divorce -- Fiction

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