Hatchet

Hatchet

Hatchet is a 1987 three-time Newbery Honor-winning wilderness survival novel written by Gary Paulsen. It is the first novel in the Hatchet series and is followed by four sequels. Brian Robeson is a 13 year-old who travels on a Cessna 206 bush plane to visit his father in the oil fields in northern Canada for the summer because his parents are divorced. During the flight, the pilot suffers a heart attack, causing Brian to try to land the plane, but ends up crash-landing into an L-shaped lake in the forest, saving nothing but his hatchet. Throughout the summer, Brian attempts to survive in the...
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quick facts
Author:Gary Paulsen
Genre:Young adult literature, Fiction, Children's literature
Year published:1987
Number of editions:34

Honors and Awards

YearAward Won
1989 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award
1988 Newbery Honor
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Author of Hatchet

Gary Paulsen
Gary Paulsen
Age:72
Birthplace:Minnesota

Gary James Paulsen is an American writer who writes many young adult coming of age stories about the wilderness. He is the author of more than 200 books , 200 magazine articles and short stories, and several plays, all primarily for young adults and teens. Gary Paulsen was born in Minneapolis,...
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Additional works by Gary Paulsen
BookCopyright DateGenre
The River Young adult literature
Brian's Winter Young adult literature
Brian's Return Young adult literature
The Transall Saga 1998 Science Fiction
The Winter Room Children's literature
Nightjohn Young adult literature
Brian's Hunt Young adult literature
Dogsong Young adult literature
Soldier's heart Young adult literature
Tucket's Ride Novel
Sarny Novel
Grizzly Young adult literature
Tucket's Travels
Time Benders Young adult literature
Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books
Curse of the Ruins Young adult literature
Tucket's Home Novel
Tucket's Gold Novel
The Creature of Black Water Lake Young adult literature
Thunder Valley Young adult literature
Flight of the Hawk Young adult literature
The Tent January 10, 2006 Novel
Mr. Tucket Children's literature
The Rock Jockeys Young adult literature
The Gorgon Slayer Young adult literature
Call Me Francis Tucket Children's literature
Danger on Midnight River Young adult literature
Hook 'Em Snotty! Young adult literature
Skydive! Young adult literature
The Treasure of El Patron Young adult literature
The Seventh Crystal Young adult literature
Rodomonte's Revenge Young adult literature
Escape from Fire Mountain Young adult literature
Project - A Perfect World Young adult literature
Captive! Young adult literature
The Legend of Red Horse Cavern Young adult literature
Murphy's Gold Western fiction
Murphy's Stand Western fiction
Murphy Western
Murphy's Ambush Western fiction
Murphy's Trail Western fiction
The Cookcamp Novel
The Case of the Dirty Bird Novel
The White Fox Chronicles June 2000 Novel
Dunc Breaks the Record Novel
Culpepper's Cannon Novel
Soldier's Heart Young adult literature
Dunc Gets Tweaked Novel
Alida's Song Novel
Dunc's Halloween Novel
Dunc's Doll Novel
Murphy's Herd Western fiction
Murphy's War Western fiction
Woodsong Non-fiction
The Glass Cafe Young adult literature
Harris and Me Young adult literature
Lawn Boy
Winterdance Fiction
The time hackers January 2005 Science Fiction
The Implosion Effect 1976 Speculative fiction
My Life in Dog Years Children's literature
The Car Young adult literature
Schernoff discoveries
Dunc's Dump
grass eaters
Dunc and Amos go to the dogs
Popcorn Days & Buttermilk Nights
The Voyage of the Frog
Amos gets married
TV & movie animals
Beat the System
Hiking and backpacking
Caught by the sea
Proyecto - Un Mundo
tortillería
Trumpet Club Interview with author
green recruit
Monument
Dancing Carl
Paperback Plus Teacher's Resource Guided Reading Hatchet
Blaues Licht. ( Ab 12 J.)
SUPER AMOS (CULPEPPER ADVENTURES #30)
Foxman. ( Ab 12 J.)
haymeadow
Das Camp. ( Ab 11 J.)
Money saving home repair guide
Sisters/Hermanas
Hermanas/Sisters
Dribbling, shooting, and scoring--sometimes
Plygu amser
La Tortilleria
Dogteam
Kill fee
Shelf Life
Winter
Amos and the Alien
Halchet
Track, enduro, and motocross--unless you fall over
Teacher's Guide for The River
The Amazing Life of Birds
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Characters in Hatchet

Brian's mother
Brian's mother

Brian's mother is a fictional character from Hatchet.

Jim/Jake
Jim/Jake

Jim/Jake is a fictional character from Hatchet.

Film adaptations of Hatchet

White Wolves: A Cry in the Wild II
White Wolves: A Cry in the Wild II
Release date:1993
Directed by:Catherine Cyran
Rated:PG (USA)
Runtime:90 minutes

White Wolves: A Cry in the Wild II is a 1993 sequel to the 1990 film A Cry in the Wild. Five teenagers and a teacher go on a two-week trek through the Cascade Mountains. At first, they had a great time; making new friends and enjoying the wild. They then go to Eagle Rock where Mr.B tells about his...
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Literary Genres

Young adult literature
Young adult literature

Young-adult fiction or young adult literature , also juvenile fiction, is fiction written, published, or marketed to adolescents and young adults....
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Fiction
Fiction

Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but...
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Children's literature
Children's literature

Children's literature as such probably started in the 17th century; it is generally believed that before then books were written mainly for adults....
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Frequently Asked Questions

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    How long is the book: "Hatchet"?
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    The work consists of 195 pages.
  • Q:
    When was the title "Hatchet" first published?
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    The work was first published in September, 1987.
  • Q:
    "Hatchet" is of which genre?
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    The written work is classified as- Young adult literature and Fiction.
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    The work, "Hatchet" is of which category?
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    "Hatchet" is of the subject area category: Divorce, Canada, Family and Adventure

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