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Brian's Winter

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Overview

In Hatchet, 13-year-old Brian Robeson learned to survive alone in the Canadian wilderness, armed only with his hatchet. Finally, as millions of readers know, he was rescued at the end of the summer. But what if Brian hadn't been rescued What if he had been left to face his deadliest enemy--winter Gary Paulsen raises the stakes for survival in this riveting and inspiring story as one boy confronts the ultimate test and the ultimate adventure. From the Paperback edition.

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Bio of Gary Paulsen

"We have been passive. We have been stupid. We have been lazy. We have done all the things we could do to destroy ourselves. If there is any hope at all for the human race, it has to come from young people. Not from adults."--Gary Paulsen A three-time Newbery Honor winner, Gary Paulsen is also winner of the 1997 Margaret A. Edwards Award, which honors an author's lifetime contribution to writing books for teenagers.

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Imprint

Delacorte for Young Readers

Filesize

330.95 KB

Number of Pages

144

eBook ISBN

9780385729963

Awards

  • Arizona Young Reader's Award
  • Garden State Teen Book Award
  • Golden Archer Award (Wisconsin)
  • Iowa Children's Choice Award
  • Iowa Teen Award
  • Mark Twain Award
  • Massachusetts Children's Book Award
  • North Carolina Children's Book Award
  • Sasquatch Reading Award
  • Sunshine State Young Reader's Book Award
  • Volunteer State Book Award
  • Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Book Award
  • Young Hoosier Book Award
  • Young Reader's Choice Award

Excerpt from: Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen

This book was written for all those readers of Hatchet and The River who wrote (I received as many as two hundred letters a day) to tell me they felt Brian Robeson's story was left unfinished by his early rescue before, they said, "it became really hard going." They asked: "What would happen if Brian hadn't been rescued, if he had had to survive in the winter " Since my life has been one of survival in winter -- running two Iditarods, hunting and trapping as a boy and young man -- the challenge became interesting, and so I researched and wrote Brian's Winter, showing what could and perhaps would have happened had Brian not been rescued.

For the purpose of this story it is necessary to shift the idea left by Hatchet and suppose that although Brian did retrieve the survival pack from the plane, he did not trigger a radio signal and did not get rescued. Other than that I hope I have remained true to the story in Hatchet and that this book will answer the question of Brian's winter survival.

It is important to note, however, that his previous knowledge was vital -- he had to know summer survival to attempt living in winter. Had he been dropped in the winter with no previous knowledge of hunting, surviving, no education gained in the school of hard knocks during the summer, Brian probably would have died no matter what his luck or abilities.