Brian is camping in the Canadian wilderness, when he senses he must head north. His Hunt begins.

The hunt by Gary Paulsen is a up beat exiting book. I the begining he is in the wilderness and fishing with his bow. He later in the book has to figure out who or what killed his friends at there cabin across the lake.

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1180L,GRL R,GL 6.2,AR 5.9,8 copies

I am officially a fan of Gary Paulsen’s writing after reading this book. I have not read Hatchet or any of his other books but now I plan to. I know this book would appeal to young male readers elementary through middle school. It would be a bit of a sell to girls of the same age though. That may be why I hadn’t read it until I became a middle school librarian. In the story, a young man named Brian embarks on a trip back into the wilderness that he had learned to love and long for. Paulsen doesn’t shy away from writing unpleasant (but accurate) and gory details about an injured dog that Brian finds and the horrific scene of carnage left by a bear that he stumbles across later. I suspect many people have a hard time believing that the main character, Brian, could be drawn to living life the way he does in the story. This book is believable because I have had a great deal of experience in wilderness survival, canoeing and camping in Northern Minnesota and the Canadian wilderness. During my travels (much of it in my teen years) I learned a great deal about French Voyageurs and Anishinabe (Ojibwe) ways. It is the details that make the story so interesting. The descriptions were so accurate at times that it made me curious about the author. So I did research on Gary Paulsen and found out that his stories are in fact based on his own experiences. This story would definitely appeal to an adventurous and independent sort of person. ( )