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Hatchet



Author: -Gary Paulsen
Title: -Hatchet
Illustrator: -
Publisher: -Macmillan Children's Books
Year: -1987


Format: -eBook
Genre: - Contemporary Realistic Fiction
Reading Level: Independent Reader
Interest Level: --Late Elementary


Topics: - Surviving the wilderness, camping, outdoors, wild animals, weather.


Summary: - A boy named Brian goes to Canada with his dad and while flying the pilot suffers a heart attack and dies. He is stranded in the wilderness by himself and needs to find out ways to live. He has to fight off bears and goes through a tornado. He learns all of these things and survives the wilderness.



Extension Activities: -
Have the kids make a for out of sticks that they think they could live off of.

Make a scene from the book in a box with different material.