This is an amazing book and I would recommend to every fifth grader. This book is especially great for boys. It's the type of novel that will create a passion for reading for most boys; which it actuality did for my little bother. This book would probably be better for later on in the school year fo...
Hatchet should be read in fifth grade and tells a story of a boy that fights alone through adversity and never gives up on what he needs to do to survive.
This is another book that I haven't read yet, but it is highly recommended for upper elementary school grades. The story about a young man and his fight for survival in the wilderness is another inspirational tale that will uplift students. I would use this book in a fourth grade classroom and I wou...
This is another book I chose for a potential book to read with my tutoring child. Gary Paulsen's books were popular when I was in school but I never read them. Hatchet tells the story of Brian, who is traveling to visit his father after his parents divorce. While traveling, the pilot has a heart att...
If I had read this on my own it would have been a 3 (maybe 2) star book. I honestly might not have even finished it. I was pretty turned off by the writing style from the get go. But I wasn’t reading this on my own, I was reading this out loud to my ten year old daughter and she was enthralled fr...
I checked this book out from my library after someone at one of my author talks raved about it. I enjoyed it so much that I bought my own copy today--I'm certain that I'll reread it. It contains one of the best passages demonstrating the use of description of setting to convey emotion--what MFA'ers ...
A great adventure story with some depth - I think this one is probably a book that kids may read younger and could probably revisit when they are older to understand more that it is not just an adventure, but also be able to see the mental and emotional strain that Paulsen shows us. Grades 4+ Liste...
As many of you might know, I abhor the YA designation, believing it to be a form of segregation that simply makes it a target for the Comstockians of the world, witness recent calls for YA books to be more wholesome and less dark. That many so-called YA titles deal with issues that should be of conc...
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