Hatchet

Hatchet


By: Gary Paulsen
Reviewed by: Kristin S., 13
Rating: Really liked it


If anyone loves wilderness-survival, they're going to love this book. Gary Paulsen's much admired Hatchet opened eyes to the intensity of the need for survival.

Brian was going to Canada to spend the summer with his dad who had just been divorced. When his pilot dies of a heart-attack and dies, his plane crashes. Brian managed to get out, though, and found himself in the Canadian wilderness.

Over the next fifty-three days, Brian learns the laws of the wilderness, and struggles with the Secret; the Secret which was the reason his mom had divorced his dad.

I turned pages in this book very quickly. If I could tell the author to do something differently, it'd be to make the story go slower...because I wanted to keep reading this book for a very long time!



Recommended to: Anyone 9+ who likes the classic scenario of wilderness survival.