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Hatchet / Gary Paulsen.
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781416936473
- ISBN: 1416936475
- ISBN: 9780689821677
- ISBN: 0689821670
- Physical Description: 186 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition: Revised cover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1999.
- Copyright: ©1987
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary "Includes a reader's guide for book groups, teachers, and students"--P. [4] of cover. "A Newbery honor book"--Spine. |
| Target Audience Note: | 10-14. 1020L Lexile |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.7 7 367. |
| Awards Note: | Newbery Honor, 1988. |
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| Subject: | Airplane crash survival > Canada > Juvenile fiction. Divorce > Fiction. Wilderness survival > Fiction. Canada > Juvenile fiction. Canada. |
| Genre: | Fiction. Juvenile works. |
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- 18 of 24 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Cass County.
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- 0 current holds with 24 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cass County Library-Harrisonville | YA PAU 1999 (Text) | 0002205466622 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Hatchet
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Summary
Hatchet
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. Hatchet has also been nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson, haunted by his secret knowledge of his mother's infidelity, is traveling by single-engine plane to visit his father for the first time since the divorce. When the plane crashes, killing the pilot, the sole survivor is Brian. He is alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but his clothing, a tattered windbreaker, and the hatchet his mother had given him as a present. At first consumed by despair and self-pity, Brian slowly learns survival skills--how to make a shelter for himself, how to hunt and fish and forage for food, how to make a fire--and even finds the courage to start over from scratch when a tornado ravages his campsite. When Brian is finally rescued after fifty-four days in the wild, he emerges from his ordeal with new patience and maturity, and a greater understanding of himself and his parents.
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