The River
Random House Children's Books · Paperback · March 13, 2012
The government sends Brian back to the Canadian wilderness in this beloved follow-up to the award-winning classic Hatchet from three-time Newbery Honor-winning author Gary Paulsen!
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- Who it’s for
- A wilderness survival story where practical ingenuity meets the harder task of getting someone else through.
- Themes
- Wilderness survival, Rescue and responsibility, Courage under pressure
- Pacing
- Fast
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The government sends Brian back to the Canadian wilderness in this beloved follow-up to the award-winning classic Hatchet from three-time Newbery Honor-winning author Gary Paulsen! Two years after Brian Robeson survived fifty-four days alone in the Canadian wilderness, the government wants him to head back so they can learn what he did to stay alive. This time Derek Holtzer, a government psychologist, will accompany him. But a freak storm leaves Derek unconscious.
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Brian's only hope is to transport Derek a hundred miles down the river to a trading post. He's survived with only a hatchet before--now can Brian build a raft and navigate an unknown river? For the first time it's not only Brian's survival that's at stake. . . An IRA-CBC Children’s Choice A Parents Magazine Best Book of the Year “Vividly written, a book that will, as intended, please the readers who hoped that Paulsen, like Brian, would ‘do it again.’” —Kirkus Reviews Read all the Hatchet Adventures! Brian's Winter The River Brian's Return Brian's Hunt
River-Borne Stakes
A wilderness survival story where practical ingenuity meets the harder task of getting someone else through.
Come here for
- River travel, improvised solutions, and survival under pressure
- The shift from surviving alone to protecting another person
Expect
- A storm, an unconscious companion, and a hundred-mile river journey
- A direct, high-stakes wilderness adventure
Where it sits
| YA Survival Stories | 88% |
|---|---|
| Camping & Outdoors | 24% |
| YA Classics | 22% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- YA Survival Stories
- YA Animal Stories
- Nature Stories for Teens
- Authors
- Gary Paulsen
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books
- Published
- March 13, 2012
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Wilderness survival · Rescue and responsibility · Courage under pressure
- Reading lane
- YA Survival Stories