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Brian's Saga #5

Brian's Hunt

gary paulsen

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Millions of readers of Hatchet, The River, Brian’s Winter , and Brian’s Return know that Brian Robeson is at home in the Canadian wilderness. He has stood up to the challenge of surviving alone in the woods. He prefers being on his own in the natural world to civilization.

When Brian finds a dog one night, a dog that is wounded and whimpering, he senses danger. The dog is badly hurt, and as Brian cares for it, he worries about his Cree friends who live north of his camp. His instincts tell him to head north, quickly. With his new companion at his side, and with a terrible, growing sense of unease, he sets out to learn what happened. He sets out on the hunt.


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112 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1,2003
Series
Brian/s Saga

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Format
112 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published
October 11, 2005 by Laurel Leaf
ISBN
9780553494150
ASIN
0553494155
Language
English
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gary paulsen

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Gary James Paulsen was an American writer of children's and young adult fiction, best known for coming-of-age stories about the wilderness. He was the author of more than 200 books and wrote more than 200 magazine articles and short stories, and several plays, all primarily for teenagers. He won the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 1997 for his lifetime contribution in writing for teens.

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Neutral_07
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April 17,2025
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This story was really short! 100 pages vs 140-200 for all the other books! This felt more like a bonus story than a book and I am a little bit disappointed because I believe it could have benefited from another 40 pages. It felt a bit rushed.

However, it was nice to read about Brian again. When I was a child I read the first books and was absolutely intrigued by it for years! Part of that because I couldn’t remember the name of the book and I wanted to reread, and when I finally did I liked it as much as I remembered. Good memories!
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KingAce261
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April 17,2025
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The last of the Hatchet series was a good one once again. They are short and sweet with enough to keep you interested and surprised at parts. I’m glad I finally read all of these books. Now I’m ready to recommend them to certain readers in my class.
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profilian
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April 17,2025
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I enjoyed this book! I definitely found myself wondering alongside Brian about whether or not the bear is good. I liked the author coming to a conclusion that it’s just…a bear lol It seems like such a simple conclusion, but we assign these “bad” behaviors to animals attacking/eating others, but are we as humans really all that different??? We hunt and eat other animals as a way to survive and that bear was doing the same thing!

This book definitely inspires me to read the other books in the series! :)
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iSakuraSnow
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April 17,2025
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Concluding the events that began with a plane crash and fight for survival, Gary Paulsen went out with a crazy blow.

Brian was a young kid when he was forced to survive alone in the wildness of Canada four books back, but now in this last installment of his life, he is a much older youth. He even has his eye on a girl. We met her and her family at the ending of the third book, when we see what would have happened if Brian had been left to survive in the winter. He meets an Inuit family and they take him in until he is rescued, then when Brian feels that he just has to go out and be in the wilderness again, he ventures out to see them.

That is where the shocking devastation comes in. Brian encounters the dog, injured and clearly been attacked by something big. When Brian finally makes it to the family home, he finds to his horror the slaughtered remains of the father. The cabin is in ruins, the dogs are dead, the place trashed and ripped apart. Further in the woods Brian finds the remains of the mother.

The children re no where to be seen and Brian fears the worst.

He takes it on himself to find and destroy the beast that did this, which turns out to be a very large bear.

The battle is brutal, bloody and scary, but in the end, Brian defeats the bear and slays it. He then finds the children and goes off with the girl he likes to tell the authorities.

Life will be hard for the children now that they are orphans, but Brain will be there now and things will eventually be okay.

I salute Brian and hope the rest of his life is well lived.
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sinclairHH
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April 17,2025
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The reason why i chose this book is because i have read the other two books befor it. It book is realleistif ficshon. The teting of the book is out in the north woods of Canada. The mane character lived in the city for most of his life but he was in two different plane crashes and now he calles the north woods his home. The plot of the book is that Brian wants to go see his friends that he spent his three months of his winter with and they are natovamaricans. The conflict of the book is that a dog is wonded and he is trying to find out whos dog it and he thinks he friends will know the answer to his queston. The way the problum is solved is he gets to the island that his friends stay on dering the summer and they are dead so that is another problum and he knows that a baer has killed them. The way he solves that problum is by killing the baer. If someone ha read the two books befor this then i would say yes this would be a good book for them.
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Wendigo-
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April 17,2025
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I'm done reading Gary Paulsen. Done.

It was a mercy that my grandkids were exhausted after Fair week. A mercy the two oldest fell asleep around the fifth chapter. A mercy that I broke covenant and kept reading silently. I read far enough to realize this book was not an appropriate read aloud.

There was a bear attack; there are gruesome details, unspeakable particulars, gut-wrenching awfulness. If you like nightmares, this is your book.

A series that began with Hatchet, an incredible survival story, ends with a whimpering dog. a traumatized orphan, and a boy who glories in isolation.

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