This award-winning contemporary classic is the survival story with which all others are compared—and a page-turning, heart-stopping adventure, recipient of the Newbery Honor.
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Brian Robertson, sole passenger on a Cessna 406, is on his way to visit his father when the tiny bush plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness. With nothing but his clothing, a tattered windbreaker, and the hatchet his mother had given him as a present, Brian finds himself completely alone.
Challenged by his fear and despair -- and plagued with the weight of a dreadful secret he's been keeping since his parent's divorce -- brian must tame his inner demons in order to survive. It will take all his know-how and determination, and more courage than he knew he possessed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13: 9781481486293
ISBN-10: 1481486292
Published on 10/3/2017
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
Book Reviews (461)
pearl
in around grade 6 i was forced to read this book by my teacher and write a book report on it. I am quite a skilled reader for my age so something of this size should not have taken me long, i was wrong. this book was painful to read and even harder to write a report on, especially since there is NO DESCRIPTION OF THE BOY other than that he was 13 or something.But this story is very educational!I learnt that if i'm stuck in a forest:
-eat random berries
-kill wildlife
-drink dirty water
-burn everything
-repeat words a lot
and when i get saved to make whole chapters of the book just burning different items for fun.
so yeah, great book.
Hatchet is a book about a boy named Brian Robeson. He is the only passenger on a single-engine plane he is flying in to go visit his dad for the first time after his parents divorce that happened because of the "Secret". The pilot suddenly has a heart attack and Brian has to crash-land the plane into the Canadian wilderness and learn to survive there.
A survival story that is a must-read. Main character Brian is on his way to Canada to visit his alienated father when the pilot of his two-person plane suffers a heart attack. Brian is forced to crash-land the plane in a lake - and finds himself stranded in the remote Canadian wilderness with only his clothing and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present before his departure. Exhausted, terrified, and hungry, Brian struggles to find food and make a shelter for himself. He has no special knowledge of the woods, and he must find a new kind of awareness and patience as he meets each day's challenges. Is the water safe to drink? Are the berries he finds poisonous? Slowly, Brian learns to turn misfortune to his advantage - an invading porcupine unexpectedly shows him how to make fire, a devastating tornado shows him how to retrieve supplies from the submerged airplane. A story of survival, this breathtaking book sparks most readers to take on the impossible.
This book was good, just not my favorite. Brian is flying over the Canadian wilderness to visit his dad in a little two-person light-weight airplane, when the pilot suffers from a heart attack and dies. Brian somehow keeps the plane flying for a while longer, but eventually crashes in a large lake. Because they had gotten somewhat off-course, Brian is not found by search and rescue. Brian learns how to survive in the wilderness while battling a secret of his own. I think the ending wasn't great, and I don't think it's easy to make an interesting book with basically only one character.
All I have to say is do NOT read this book . I am a very good at going through tough times for characters but I didn't have the heart to finish it . I guess it was a good thing that my cousin got a copy and it was destroyed , so I gave him mine . All ends well .
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