Hatchet

The book I’m reading is called Gary paulsen hatchet the author of this book Holt,rinehart and Winston other they have written is element of literature, call of freedom and great American's story, those are his most populated books he have written, Gary Paulsen hatchet is similar to this three books I listed because they talk about fairy tales and true life stories.

This book is about a boy that is going to visit his father but the plane crashed and sank in the lake, the boy survives but the pilot and everyone died then he build a camp and he didn’t eat or drink any water for two days he started living a caveman lifestyle he had to kill birds and eat everyday and he faced a heavy conflict like trying to survive.

I like this book because it’s about surviving and I like books that talks about surviving, you should read this book because it’s about a boy that’s going to visit his dad put his plan crashed into a lake.

Book Review by Harun A.

The River

For my book review I chose The River by Gary Paulsen. The River Is the second book in the Hatchet Series.  The River compares to some of Gary Paulsen’s books in the sense that Some of his other books such as Brian’s winter, Brian’s Return and Brian’s Hunt are all revolved around the same character and the characters adventures. This story is about a boy Brian who has to try and teach an environmental survival school instructor how he survived in the wilderness with nothing but a hatchet. The theme of this story is that no matter how hard your difficulties are you will always find away to overcome them.

In the first book of the Hatchet series “The Hatchet” Brian is the only survivor in a plane crash and he survives in the wilderness with nothing but a hatchet for 54 days. In the second book “The River” Brian is asked by an environmental survival school instructor to teach him how he survived so he could teach other people if they were every in a life or death situation like Brian was. After long consideration Brian agrees. Brain and the instructor, Derek goes into the wilderness with nothing but a couple knives a radio and some small tools. But when a Freak storm hits Derek is hit with lightning and falls into a coma.  With the radio dead and no way to communicate to get help Brian has to build a raft and try and Make his way to a trading post miles away and keep Derek alive.

I liked this book and would recommend anyone to read it. The book from the beginning was interesting. There were no boring parts of the books. This book was also interesting because it takes you through Brian’s thought process through out the story.

Book Review by Rachel H.