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Hatchet

by Gary Paulsen

Ages 10–13 Reading age 10 Novel Set in outdoors and wild places adventurousthoughtful

The pilot dies mid-flight and thirteen-year-old Brian puts the plane down in a lake. He has a windbreaker, a hatchet and no idea what to do.

A story about children, adventurous and thoughtful in tone. We would put it with children of 10–13, and at a reading age of about 10 for reading alone.

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