The river and wilderness belong to Brian and his new companion, until he discovers a terrifying scene at a campground nearby his hunting grounds. His closest friend may be in danger, and he is willing to risk his own life in order to protect her.

I have never read a "Brian book" before, although I had read excerpts from Gary Paulsen's various works many times. I liked that Paulsen's style mirrored the situation in the woods--bare-boned and raw.

I recommend this to anyone, especially those kids in my class who really liked reading Hatchet in fifth grade.

Brian Robertson was once stuck in the wilderness for 45 days. He was rescued by a outdoors man and his family. Brian thought it would be nice to pay him and his family a visit. After heading down stream Brian found an injured dog come from the direction that he was heading. The dog was injured and had a huge gash on its left side. Using some fishing wire he stitched up the dog. Brian couldn’t let the dog go, he could tell that it was a house dog. Brian decided to take it along with him. Once he arrived at the house, Brian realized something was wrong. As he entered the house he found out that the owner of the house and his wife had been mauled by a huge bear. Using his instincts, Brian was able to find the survivor. Once at the house Brian radioed for help and the survivor was taken to her aunt and uncles house. Brian knew what he had to do. He and the dog set out to kill the bear. After about 7 hours of searching they found the bear. Brian stabbed the bear in the chest two times before it died. I think this book is the best in the Brian sequel. It kept me guessing what would happen next.

Brian’s Hunt is the 4th book in a 5 book adventure series which is written by Gary Paulsen. Brian, who is 16 years old and the main character, is camping out in the Canadian wilderness. One night while he was sleeping he heard a dog whimpering and thought it belonged to another camp. The next day he decided to return the dog, so he got in his canoe and went down stream to the camp. Upon arrival Brian was shocked to see several dead bodies and luckily one survivor. After searching the grounds he discovered bear tracks EVERYWHERE! So the journey begins searching for the man eating bear. Brian’s hunt is an easy read because it has many interesting adventures and Brian is a courageous person. This book has taught me to never give up despite my challenges.

“He’d wanted to see if there was some way he could make the two worlds work together, but he could not; their world was ugly to him and was filled with awful tastes and smells and people who all wanted what he thought were the wrong things…”

✔️ Brian’s Saga is officially finished! How bittersweet !

In Brian’s Hunt, the final installment of the saga, Brian faces his biggest challenge yet… an unimaginable tragedy.

The story starts out a bit slow and repetitive until a dog stumbles upon Brian’s camp site, whimpering for help and wounded. Brian’s intuition never fails, and he knows something isn’t right. He must help the dog and discover where it came from. I loved the finale (if it is indeed the true finale haha! Seems like over the years the author keeps coming back to write more Brian!) But it was shocking and tense! A turn of events.

What else I loved:
↠There are some amazing hunting scenes described. Brian has some impressive skills and truly belongs in the wilderness.

↠The author's afterword was very powerful:

"We don’t like to think of ourselves as prey—it is a lessening thought—but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we forget that we are not unique. We are part of nature as much as other animals, and some animals—sharks, fever-bearing mosquitoes , wolves, and bear, to name but a few—perceive us a food source, a meat supply, and simply did not get the memo about how humans are superior."

Terrific read, novella length. (I'd be more of a feral creature like Brian, but for the mosquitoes and biting flies that are acknowledged in these books but not sufficiently described as the peace-wrecking monsters they are.)

Some wonderfully affecting passages about dogs.

Pretty fun to hear some more of Brian's adventures.

The book I read was "Brian's Hunt" by Gary Paulsen. The setting of the book is in the Canadian wilderness around 2010. Brian Robinson wanted to see If he could survive again, because he was once stuck In the wilderness for 45 days, an was rescued by a outdoors man and his family. Brian though be nice to pay him a visit. After heading down stream Brian found an injured dog come from the direction that he was heading. The dog was injured and had a huge gash an its left side. Once he arrived at the house, Brian realized something was wrong. When he enter the house he found out that the owner of the house and his wife had been mauled by a bear... I think this book is the best in the Brian sequel. It kept me guessing what would happen next. I give this book 5 out of 5 stars

I liked this book. It was OK but it wasn't the greatest mainly because for homework I had to fill out a story map about it. I started it a while ago, when I was first assigned to read a independant reading book around my lexile. And this was it. I picked it because it was my lexile reading range and it was only 100 pages so I thought I could fly through it. I started it, then never got around to reading it, even though I was telling myself to read it. I just wanted to read Stephen King. But I finally picked it up again this morning and it was pretty good. I had read hatchet, but I never read any of the other books that came before Brian's hunt but I knew what was going to happen; he was in the woods and he would be hunting, and find things to survive. And indeed he did. He found a dog and that was his companion throughout half the book. I think the ending was pretty exciting, and it was a fast read, with rather large font, and 100 pages. I thought though that some of the sentences in the book were run-on. For example, one of the sentences near the end of the book was most of a paragraph, following a short sentence, and that was kind of annoying. I do like Gary Paulson as a writer because he is good, and pretty informative about the stuff that you are too find in the woods. All in all it earns a 3/5 stars. Recommended for anybody who has read hatchet, or anybody who likes the works of Gary Paulsen. A fairly light read.

I didn’t think this book would be good but the book wasn’t bad. The only reason I rated this 3 is because of some of the repetitive parts or chapters of the book that were starting to lose my interest.

This book is about a boy who is about 15 years old and has had tons of crazy experience with the wilderness. He ends up liking it a lot and decides to go camping by himself. In the night he is sleeping and wakes up to a dog whining and crying because it has a huge cut in it so he fix's it up. He has to get food for it and later finds out that it was cut by a bear and belongs to a family but most of it died from the bear. It got into the cabin and killed them but all the kids survived. He goes to go kill the bear and he succeeds.

Brian is a boy who is 15 and almost sixteen. He is the only child in his family and his parents got a divorce. Brian has had lots and lots of experience considering that one time he was in the canadian wilderness for 52 days. He changes in this book by hating the outside thinking its gross to loving it. He loves to cook food now and likes to learn more about things. He has gotten many benifits from all of his experience.

After I read this book I really really liked it a lot. The author did an amazing job writing it. Brian does a lot of cool stuff. There was a lot of things I hated about this book too. The bear in this book that has been killing everyone killed them very brutally and it was discusting. I wish they didn't put that much detail in the book. It also talks about a dog for like 35 pages and I kind of wanted to fall asleep there.

Even Brian chose the bear.

So I have read a couple of Gary Paulsens books and I have really enjoyed all of them because I am a big fan of the outdoors. I feel like his book really make me feel like I am in the adventure or journey also. Reading this book made me feel like I was his dog listening to him talk out loud or something. If you haven't read the book the hatchet I really suggest you read that because it will make more sense. I don't want to spoil anything but basically he wants to go out in the wood on a little journey to see his old friends the smalhorns and he meets and dog he recuse because it's hurt and the dog is attached to him because he helped it. When he gets to there house they all are dead from a bear except the children and he sets out onto an adventure to track down the bear but little does he know the bear is tracking him!