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Newbery Award-winner Gary Paulsen's best-known book comes to audio in this breathless, heart-gripping drama about a boy pitted against the wilderness with only a hatchet and a will to live.<P>On his way to visit his recently divorced father in the Canadian mountains, thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is the only survivor when the single-engine plane crashes. His body battered, his clothes in shreds, Brian must now stay alive in the boundless Canadian wilderness.<P>More than a survival story, <I>Hatchet</I> is a tale of tough decisions. When all is stripped down to the barest essentials, Brian discovers some stark and simple truths. Self-pity doesn't work. Despair doesn't work. And if Brian is to survive physically as well as mentally, he must discover courage.

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A Basic Survival Story...

bytkd_grant Jan 9, 2003
88 Helpfuls 89 Helpfuls Was this review helpful? 3 Comments
Pros Suspense, Plot, Setting, Characters
Cons Dry in some areas, Insufficient ending
Recommended it? Yes

After getting load full of gift certificates for Christmas, it was about of time I go out and spend some free dough. So I went to my local Barnes and Noble without any particular book in mind, and in the Teenage section I stumbled across the book Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. When I was in the fifth... Read full review »

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Would You Survive With Only a Hatchet?

byjenninca Jun 30, 2001
82 Helpfuls 83 Helpfuls Was this review helpful? 8 Comments
Pros Interesting survival story that appeals to boys (and girls)
Cons Silly and unnecessary little subplot
Recommended it? Yes

I've had Hatchet by Gary Paulsen on my "books to be read" bookshelf for the past couple of years. I don't know why I never read it, except that every time I was about ready to, I'd have a new order of books come in and I'd start in on those ones. But when I went on vacation this summer, I took... Read full review »

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Hacking one's way through the Canadian wilderness

byarianej Oct 30, 2001
41 Helpfuls 42 Helpfuls Was this review helpful? 2 Comments
Pros gritty survival story, great details
Cons too graphic for some, oddly anti-climatic ending
Recommended it? Yes

When I was a kid, I loved survival stories, books where kids lived in the wild due to some hardship or self-imposed quest and lived off mushrooms and roots. It was pure fantasy, of course. I was the kind of child who hated not having flush toilets and running water, and I'd sell my little brother... Read full review »

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Authors Gary Paulsen
Fiction Genre Family & Relationships • Juvenile Fiction
Narrator Peter Coyote
Illustrator Drew Willis
Awards 1988 Newbery Medal

Professional Reviews

Publishers Weekly Annex: "This is a heart-stopping story: it seems that at every moment Brian is forced to face a life-and-death decision, and every page makes readers wonder at the density of descriptive detail Paulsen has expertly woven together. Poetic texture and realistic events are combined to create something beyond adventure, a book that plunges readers into the cleft of the protagonist's experience."

Book Editions

Hardcover - Reinforced HardcoverReissue195April 01, 1987Atheneum8.25"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 0.5"(d), 0.65 lbs.9780689840920

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Brian Robeson stared out the window of the small plane at the endless green northern wilderness below.
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