Hatchet

Resource Information

The work Hatchet represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Culver-Union Township Public Library. 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
• Paulsen, Gary

Author

• Paulsen, Gary

Subject

• trueAirplane accidents -- Canada
• Airplane crash survival. -- Canada -- Juvenile fiction
• trueBooks to movies
• trueCanada
• Canada -- Juvenile fiction
• trueChildren of divorced parents
• trueClassics
• Divorce -- Fiction
• Shipwreck survival. -- Canada -- Juvenile fiction
• trueSurvival (after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.) -- Canada
• Survival at sea. -- Canada -- Juvenile fiction
• Survival. -- Canada -- Juvenile fiction
• trueSurvival stories
• Young adult fiction
• Wilderness survival -- Fiction
• trueWilderness survival -- Canada
• trueThirteen-year-old boys
• trueAdventure stories

Genre

• trueBooks to movies
• trueClassics
• Fiction
• trueAdventure stories
• trueSurvival stories
• Young adult fiction
• Juvenile fiction

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• trueBrian's saga
• Brian's saga, 01

Storyline

• trueCharacter-driven
• trueAction-packed

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

Newbery Honor, 1988.

Cataloging source

HT#

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• Ages 10-14
• 1020

Intended audience source

Lexile

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

1020

Literary form

fiction

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

• 6
• 12

Series statement

Brian's saga

Series volume

1]

Target audience

pre adolescent