Hatchet

Resource Information

The work Hatchet represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

Hatchet

Statement of responsibility

Gary Paulsen

Title variation

Cry in the wild

Creator

• truePaulsen, Gary

Author

• truePaulsen, Gary

Subject

• Survival -- Juvenile fiction
• Accelerated Reader - 6.1
• Action and adventure fiction
• Action and adventure fiction
• trueAirplane accidents -- Canada
• Airplane crash survival
• Airplane crash survival -- Juvenile fiction
• trueCanada
• Canada -- Fiction
• Children of divorced parents
• trueChildren of divorced parents
• Children of divorced parents -- Juvenile fiction
• Curriculum resource
• Divorce
• Divorce -- Fiction
• Divorce -- Fiction
• Divorce -- Juvenile fiction
• Fiction
• Juvenile works
• Survival (Title)
• trueSurvival (after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.) -- Canada
• Survival -- Fiction
• Survival -- Fiction
• Young adult works
• Young adult fiction
• trueWilderness survival -- Canada
• trueThirteen-year-old boys

Genre

• Young adult works
• Juvenile works
• Action and adventure fiction
• Curriculum resource
• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• Young adult fiction

Language

eng

Summary

After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce

Member of

• Brian's saga, 1
• Brian books ;, 01
• trueBrian's saga

Storyline

• trueAction-packed
• trueCharacter-driven

Pace

• trueFast-paced

Tone

• trueAtmospheric
• trueHaunting

Writing style

• trueCompelling
• trueDescriptive

Character

• trueCourageous

Award

• ALA Notable Children's Book, 1988
• Buckeye Children's Book Award (Ohio), Grades 6-8, 1991.
• Flicker Tale Children's Book Award (North Dakota) for Juvenile Fiction, 1990.
• Georgia Children's Book Award, 1991.
• Indian Paintbrush Book Award (Wyoming), 1990.
• Iowa Teen Award, 1990.
• Massachusetts Children's Book Award, 1995.
• Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award (Minnesota), 1991.
• Minnesota Book Award for Young Adult Books, 1988.
• Sequoyah Book Awards (Oklahoma), Young Adult Books, 1990.
• Soaring Eagle Book Award (Wyoming), 1997.
• Surrey Book of the Year Award (British Columbia), 1990.
• Virginia Readers' Choice Award for Middle School, 1990.
• William Allen White Children's Book Award (Kansas), 1990.
• Young Hoosier Book Award, Middle Books, 1991.

Awards note

• Minnesota Book Award, 1988.
• ALA Notable Books for Children, 1988
• Newbery Honor Book, 1988.
• Young Hoosier Book Award, 1991
• Georgia Children's Book Award, 1990-91

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

1020L

Intended audience source

Lexile

Interest level

MG

LC call number

• PZ7.P2843
• PS3566.A834

LC item number

• Ha 1987
• H37 1987

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 6
• 12

Reading level

5.7

Series statement

Brian's saga

Series volume

1

Study program name

Accelerated Reader

Target audience

juvenile