It’s a true page-turner, engaging students at the outset with an exciting sequence of events related to courage, bravery, and survival. Hatchet is one of those books students often have trouble putting down. In Gary Paulsen’s award-winning novel Hatchet, young readers get about as close as one can to that experience, thanks to the author’s ability to transport his readers, through the power of language, to such a remote location under the worst of circumstances. Your students probably haven’t given much thought to what they would do if they had to crash-land an airplane into a lake in the Canadian wilderness.
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