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Brian's winter
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- ISBN: 0440227194 (pbk.) :
- ISBN: 9780439650311
- ISBN: 33987000493501
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Physical Description:
133 p. ; 18 cm.
print - Publisher: New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, 1998.
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| General Note: | Originally published: New York : Delacorte Press, c1996. Companion book to: Hatchet and The river. |
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| Subject: | Survival -- Fiction Winter -- Fiction |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Headingley Municipal Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Headingley Municipal Library | J PAU (Text) | 36440000271914 | Junior Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Book Report : The Book Report Reviews 1996 May-June
Paulsen received many fan letters asking for a sequel to Hatchet, one of the most popular teen survival stories ever. This new book is based on the premise that Brian, the 13-year-old plane crash survivor who is stranded alone in the Canadian wilderness, was not rescued at the end of the summer. He did retrieve the survival pack from the submerged plane, but he did not trigger the radio signal that led to his rescue in Hatchet. Brian is caught off guard by winter's blast; he must scramble to weatherize his shelter. make animal skin clothing and arrowhead tools, and improve his hunting techniques. The boy narrowly escapes attacks from a bear and a moose. The reader feels his pain and hunger. In the harsh winter environment, Brian learns that he is like the wolves who watch him: another animal must die in order for him to survive. He feels terrible about killing. Sometimes he can steal fresh-killed meat from the wolves after they gorge themselves and slink away. While hunting one day, Brian notices a straight line in the snow on the frozen lake. As he follows the line, he smells smoke. A Cree Indian family of fur trappers has set up camp nearby. Brian stays with them for three weeks until their supply plane arrives. The boy hesitates as he gets on the plane, and the reader knows that he will return someday. Highly Recommended. By Shirley Fetherolf, Library Media. Specialist, Dibrell (Tennessee) School © 1996 Linworth Publishing, Inc. - Horn Book Guide Reviews : Horn Book Guide Reviews 1996
In this ultimate ""what if"" companion to [cf2]Hatchet[cf1] (Bradbury), Paulsen explores what would have happened to thirteen-year-old Brian if his ordeal in the Canadian wilderness had not ended before winter began. His survival is chronicled in great, sometimes grisly, detail, in a readable, fast-paced novel that can be read independently of the first book. Copyright 1998 Horn Book Guide Reviews - Horn Book Magazine Reviews : Horn Book Magazine Reviews 1996 #3
In this ultimate "what if" companion to Paulsen's 1987 Newbery Honor-winning Hatchet (Bradbury), the author explores what would have happened to thirteen-year-old Brian if his ordeal in the Canadian wilderness had not ended before winter began, if the boy had not been able to trigger a radio signal, if he had been left with only his wits and his hatchet for the winter. In the wilderness, "fall came on with a softness" that almost fools Brian. His winter survival is chronicled in great, sometimes grisly, detail, until the boy, wearing skins for clothes and carrying stone arrowheads for weapons, comes across a Cree trapping family with whom he stays until he is finally flown out. A readable, fast-paced novel that can be read independently of the first book. m.b.s. Copyright 1998 Horn Book Magazine Reviews - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 1995 November
~ Suppose Brian Robeson hadn't been rescued from the wilderness before hard winter set in? On this premise Paulsen (The Rifle, p. 1286) crafts a companion/sequel to Hatchet (1987) containing many of its same pleasures: seeing Brian face challenge after life- threatening challenge, of both the immediate and the insidious kind, aided only by ingenuity, spirit, sharp eyes, and a tiny cache of salvaged gear; discovering with him the tools and skills needed for survival; savoring Paulsen's economical, evocative descriptions of woodland sights, sounds, and smells. Brian learns how to hunt large game with bows and arrows and to fashion crude but effective winter clothing and shelter just in time for winter rains and snows. Having already fought his battles with fear, despair, and loneliness in the previous book, Brian seems almost comfortable, his thoughts of home more a way of passing time than a source of any sharp emotion, and when a family of Cree trappers finds him at the end, he leaves with mixed feelings, clearly seduced by the wild. Aside from a brief foreword, Paulsen picks Hatchet's story up in midstream; read together, the two books make his finest tale of survival yet. (Fiction. 10-14) Copyright 1999 Kirkus Reviews - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 1995 December #3
First there was Hatchet, Paulsen's classic tale of a boy's survival in the north woods after a plane crash. Then came a sequel, The River, and, last year, Father Water, Mother Woods, a collection of autobiographical essays introduced as the nonfiction counterpart to Hatchet. Now Paulsen backs up and asks readers to imagine that Brian, the hero, hadn't been rescued after all. His many fans will be only too glad to comply, revisiting Brian at the onset of a punishing Canadian winter. The pace never relents-the story begins, as it were, in the middle, with Brian already toughened up and his reflexes primed for crisis. Paulsen serves up one cliffhanger after another (a marauding bear, a charging elk), and always there are the supreme challenges of obtaining food and protection against the cold. Authoritative narration makes it easy for readers to join Brian vicariously as he wields his hatchet to whittle arrows and arrowheads and a lance, hunts game, and devises clothes out of animal skins; while teasers at the ends of chapters keep the tension high (``He would hunt big tomorrow, he thought.... But as it happened he very nearly never hunted again''). The moral of the story: it pays to write your favorite author and ask for another helping. Ages 12-up. (Feb.) Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information. - School Library Journal Reviews : SLJ Reviews 1996 February
Gr 5-9-At the conclusion of Hatchet (Macmillan, 1987), Brian Robeson is rescued after surviving a plane crash and summer alone in the north Canadian woods. Now, in this second sequel, Paulsen shows what would have happened if the 13-year-old boy had been forced to endure the harsh winter. For a brief time,Brian lives in relative luxury, living off the contents of the recently recovered survival pack, which included a gun for hunting. Then, his freeze-dried food runs out and his rifle fails, and he realizes how careless and complacent he hasbecome. Suddenly aware of the changing seasons, he works frantically to winterize his shelter, fashion warmer clothes from animal skins, and construct a more powerful bow and arrow. About the time he has mastered winter survival, he discovers adog-sled trail that leads him to a trapper and final rescue. The same formula that worked before is successful here: the driving pace of the narration, the breathtaking descriptions of nature, and the boy who triumphs on the merits of efficient problemsolving. The author's ability to cast a spell, mesmerize his audience, and provide a clinic in winter survival is reason enough to buy this novel. Although the plot is both familiar and predictable, Paulsen fans will not be disappointed.æTim Rausch,Crescent View Middle School, Sandy, UT Copyright 1998 School Library Journal Reviews - Voice of Youth Advocates Reviews : VOYA Reviews 1997 #1
Brian Robeson is stranded in the Canadian wilderness following the crash of a small plane which kills the pilot, the only other person aboard. After about two months, he is rescued. The riveting account of the teenager's struggle to survive wasvivdly portrayed in Paulsen's Hatchet (Bradbury, 1987). Here is an alternative ending, in which Brian is not rescued at the end of the summer but instead is forced to spend the fall and part of a bitter winter in the woods. Adapting the skill he hasalready learned, Brian is able to fortify his cave shelter, find ways to kill larger game and protect himself against new dangers. As he ranges farther from his camp, he encounters a toboggan track that leads him to the home of a Cree family oftrappers. Brian stays with the Cree family until their supply plane makes its scheduled stop, and he leaves the wilderness on the plane. This is more than a relating of Brian's adventures with bears, moose, blizzards and skunks. It is about animals and weather and survival, of course, but there is a beauty and a compelling depth to the writing. As Brian sometimes fails and sometimessucceeds, his characterization is consistent and believable. The descriptions of the wilderness and Brian's thoughts and interactions with all of his surroundings are woven into the narrative. There are a few references to incidents in Hatchet, butthis story will stand alone. Pick either ending - a summer rescue or a winter rescue-and you have a great adventure story.-Helen Turner. Copyright 1997 Voya Reviews
