Book Report On Hatchet By Gary Paulsen

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The book I read was Hatchet. Hatchet was wrote by Gary Paulsen, and published on the thirtieth of September, 1987. An interesting fact about Gary Paulsen is that he writes books about the wilderness and about living in the wild, and he has a sled dog team, and trap line that he runs in the winter.
In Hatchet, the main character Brian, was flying to Alaska in a bush plane with only a pilot to visit his dad over the summer. When the pilot has a heart attack Brian is forced to crash land in a L shaped lake, and barely escaped with his life. Once on land the only thing he has is a hatchet that his mom gave him before he left. After sitting on the beach and getting bit to death by mosquitoes he got pissed off and threw his hatchet at a rock face

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