The Hatchet by Garry Paulsen

                            

                                                                      The Hatchet

The Hatchet is a book that I had gotten in the 6^th grade for class just like Bud Not Buddy.  The Hatchet is a book about a thirteen year old boy named Brian Robeson. In the story Brian is riding a Cessna 406 bush plane to live with his father in northern Canada because his parents had got a divorce. Brian’s father did not know why his wife wanted to divorce him but Brian did. Brian saw his mother kissing another man and he kept it a secret from his father so he wouldn’t be sad. His mother gives him a hatchet before he was on the plane so he could use it in the woods with his father.

Also in the story, the pilot of the plane lets Brian sit in the copilot seat.  The pilot gets a heart attack and Brian takes over the plane. Brian doesn’t know what he is doing so the plane crashes into the woods. He uses his hatchet to survive. I recommend this book for boy scouts and kids that are interesting in exploring the wilderness because it talks about survival.

                                          

                               About the Author

Gary James Paulsen is a writer from Minneapolis, Minnesota that made over 90 books. He used to hunt, trap, dog sled, and do others hobbies. He used to make fish spears, bows, and arrows to hunt. The first time he saw his father was when he was seven years old. He finished in 41^st place out of 54 finishers in Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race in 1983. Woodsong and Winterdance are books by Gary Paulsen that are about the Iditarod. Dogsong is a novel that he made after The Hatchet. The Hatchet won the Newberry award medal for Garry Paulsen. The sequel to The Hatchet is called "Brian's Winter."   He now lives with his wife in La Luz, New Mexico.

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Bud Not Buddy

                         Bud, Not Buddy

Bud Not Buddy is a historical novel about a 10 year old orphan boy named Bud Caldwell. This story takes place during the Great Depression. Some of the story takes place in Flint, Michigan and other parts in the story takes place in a town called Hooverville that was named after President Herbert Hoover. Buddy became an orphan because his mother died. After that he goes to a foster home and he gets adopted by strangers. He didn’t get along with them and they treated him as if he was a dog. Bud didn’t like it whenever they called him Buddy because he felt as if it was a dog name. He left them and started traveling across the country to find his father by using clues from his mother at the time she was alive. His parents were separated and he never saw his father before. She used to listen to jazz music from a band called, “Herman E. Calloway and the Dusky Devastators of the Depression.”  He thought that Herman E. Calloway was his father.  Bud traveled most of his journey with other people. While Bud was traveling, he made rules for himself so he could stay alive.

How Did I Get This Book?

The first time I had got this book was when I was 8 in the third grade. My mom had given the book to me when she was a teacher at a high school and she had got it from her school library. The second time I had got it was when I was 10 in the 5^th grade because the book was a class assignment for our reading comprehension and each Friday we would have been tested on it. It was a little bit easy for me because I already knew about the book and I spoiled the things that would happen in the book to my classmates. Some of them thought that I was just reading ahead of them.

                                   

About The Author

The author of Bud Not Buddy is Christopher Paul Curtis. Christopher Paul Curtis had a father named Herman E. Curtis so I guess Herman E. Calloway is based on his father. Christopher Curtis is one of my favorite authors because he writes books that are based from American or African American history that can be very entertaining. I like the Bud Not Buddy story along with a few other people from my school. Also I like a story that he wrote called “The Watsons Go to Birmingham” because it has to deal a lot with the pain from African Americans during segregation time. It’s not mostly about that but it’s about a family during the segregation time. I didn’t read the novel but I did watch the movie on Netflix.  

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