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Brian's Hunt

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3 star:		(8)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

This a good read. Though it is shorter than most of Paulsen's work, it is good. I didn't like the changes though. Like he brought more books than what The List in Brian's Return said, freeze dried food, the three pairs of moccasins, the monoculars, and the barbed fish tips for his arrows. Plus it didn't mention Caleb, after all he wouldn't be there without him. And it didn't mention his medicine or Billy. It was written in a different in a different way than the other Brian books. If you have read the other Brian books you will see a different writing style. It might be because Brian is finally in a hurry to get somewhere, but The River isn't written in this way. Overall I liked it and will continue reading Paulsen's work.I have been reading for more than seven years and liking his work. I have never and probably never find a Paulsen book I don't like.

Brian's Hunt by Gary Paulson
Review by "Prince of Persia"

It's the middle of the night and Brian is in the middle of the lake in his canoe. Something wakes Brian up. Though hears nothing, he senses that there is something on the shore of the lake. Something.... but what?
Brian is a boy who has survived the wilderness in the past, and he bravely decides to venture north again. Along the way he mysteriously finds a dog that is lonely, hungry, and hurt. However, when he reaches the Cree camp, he sees no smoke and the dog is nervously shaking.
One of the things that amazes readers is the descriptive language. For example, the author creates a mind picture, which helps you "see" the story. Without the descriptive language it would be difficult to understand the setting. I believe that this book has an enjoyable amount of action. For instance, there is a bear attack scene in the book that is dripping with excitement.
Finally, this is an interesting book because of its suspense. The author writes in such a way that makes you want to read on. The story leads to a scary, surprise ending that will not disappoint the reader!
To sum up, this book a great read because it has action, descriptive language, and suspense. It would be a good idea to read the prequels to better understand the story.

My story is about ayoung man who takes a camping trip to the vast candain bush to vist some old Indian trapper friends . Along the way he picks up a wounded indian wolf dog ,that has seen better day. Senseing that somthing is wrong, Brian quickens his pace. When he arrives at the camp he finds it abondoned, noticing that his new sompanion is growling at somthing on the ground, cautiously Brian approaches and finds a track of a obivious rouge bear . Following the tracks into the dark forest, he soon finds himself staring into death itself eye`s. Brians hunt is a fine book and I give it 5 stars. I recomednd this book that is old enough to read!!!!.

You will like this book because it is very adventurous. This is a good book because once you get started you can't put it down. I' m a lover of Gary Paulsen's Brian series. Every time a new book comes out I'm always the first person to get it in the library. To understand this book you might have to read the two books before this one to figure out about why he is where he is in this book. This book is about Brian and he is camping and he sees a dog. The dog is wounded and he is having trouble getting up. Brian goes over to see what is wrong and he sees that the dog is hurt. Now Brain is going to hunt for the person or thing that has hurt this dog. The dog also comes with him as his new partner to hunt. Some things that I like about this book is that it is very adventurous. It has a lot of things about what to doing the wilderness when you are camping and something goes wrong. Overall I think that you will love this book about Brian's Hunt.

I enjoyed this book. It wasn't a happy book, the adventure wasn't as great as some I've read, but it was realistic about what happens in the wilderness and with wildlife.
It is time slowly spent in the wilderness that makes the wilderness what it is. This book shows that. Brian takes his time hunting, making camp, even hiking. When he does have an encounter with wildlife, it isn't in a "Bambi" way, it is in a natural way. From hunting rabbits for food to hunting a bear, it is done in a realistic way. I especially like how he insists on using as much of an animal as possible, not wasting it.
Read "Gentle Ben" for entertainment, but read this if you want to know what bears can really be like.

Brian goes back out into the woods. He finds a dog injured and nurses it back to health. He finds out that a bear is what hurt the dog. Brian rows to a camp where his friends stay at sometimes in his canoe. He finds the two dead bodies of a man and woman that he knows. Later, Brian finds a girl that he knows. After these people in a helicopter come and pick up the girl, Brian goes out and hunts the bear that also killed the man and woman. The story is slow throughout almost the entire book. Some parts were exiting like when Brian finds the two dead bodies and when Brian fights the bear at the end.

The Hunt

How would you like to go and live in the wilderness for a while? Well that's what Brian does in Brian's Hunt by Gary Paulson. I like this book because it's only 103 pages, but it packs a lot of adventure.
Brian's Hunt is about how Brian's wilderness skills are tested again in the third book of the Brian series. The first part of this book is how Brian decides to take some days off at school and go canoeing to an Indian camp by a lake in the wilderness. On his way there he heard this noise one night, so he paddles over and sees an injured dog so he fixes the dog up and brings her with him to the Indian camp which finds destroyed by the same thing that injured the dog. After a day of searching he finds a survivor who tells him where the horrible thing is. So Brian finally in rage sets out to kill it. But will it kill him first?
My favorite part of the book is when he finds the injured dog and goes after what injured it. The reason why I liked this part was because it was suspenseful because you didn't know what hurt the dog.
The most important thing I learned from this book is that the wilderness is so unpredictable because you can never count on there being food, water and shelter unless you bring your own.
I would also suggest reading Hatchet (the first of Brian's adventures) and Brian's Winter (the second book of Brian's adventures) because they are both very good books.
You should read Brian's Hunt, one of the best action and adventure books I've read. You should also read it because I'm not going to tell you what the surprise is.
So Read It!

Minnesota-native Gary Paulsen has been one of my favorite middle-grade and YA authors for years. I can't really remember which of his books I first read, but he's written a lot of awfully good ones. His characters are always understandable, real, and - mostly - tied to nature in some ways.

His most iconic figure is Brian Robeson, the star of HATCHET. In that book, Brian was a city kid who ended up crashing into the brush when the pilot of the plane he was in had a heart attack and died suddenly. With only a hatchet - no matches, no sleeping bag, and no supplies, Brian taught himself how to live in the wilderness. His personal growth spread over 54 days, and the book become one of the best-received middle-grade novels ever. If you haven't read it, or your child hasn't read it, you should.

BRIAN'S HUNT is the newest book in the five-volume series. Brian is 16 at the time of this novel, and he's become more certain of himself. He's out on the lakes in Canada, taking his time to get to the Cree American Indian tribe he became friends with during the course of his adventures. He's very much a loner, and has even talked his parents and school into letting him try his hand at home schooling himself.

Paulsen's attention to detail and the ways of nature may prove slow-going to most of today's young readers (unless they're already in love with the series), but you can feel the love the author has for such things. I learned a lot about fishing and hunting during the course of the book, though I intend to do neither, and I could tell my ten year old was filing away details while I read the novel to him.

However, Paulsen always delivers on the action in one of his books, and BRIAN'S HUNT is no exception. Before long, Brian wakes up to find a wounded dog looking for food and for help. Brian gives both, though those scenes are somewhat intense and carry a gross-out factor with them. The scenes are realistic, though, and very well written.

As Brian puts the puzzle of the dog's mysterious wounds together with her behavior as he hunts, it doesn't take him long to realize that the dog was mauled by a bear. Once that discovery is made, Brian learns bad news that sets him into the woods after the bear.

The details of how Brian tracks the bear, the skills and the observation necessary, are great. My son and I stayed glued to the pages, though we couldn't help taking a break every now and again to discuss some facet of hunting lore we hadn't been aware of. Although the material is mature, it's written on a level kids can easily understand it, and it's very honest. But if you have a youngster and you're thinking about letting him or her read this one, you might want to read it yourself first to make sure it meets with your approval and that it won't panic or bother your child.

I'm a big fan of Gary Paulsen's, and this book really hit the spot. At 99 pages long, it's a quick, intense read. Although Paulsen said he'd ended the Hatchet adventures after the publication of the last book, I can't help but be hopeful there will be more. Brian is starting to get interested in a girl, and I want to see how that works out for him.

Brian's Hunt is a wounderful addition to the series by Gary paulsen,I myself like this book better then any other book in the series
.This is the only set of books that has me waiting for the next one to come out .I normaly dont like to read books but when I heard that this book had come out I just had to read it.The one thing I love the most about this book is the way Gary Paulsen writes every little detail ,to some people that may be annoying but I love it ,it makes me able to imagine myself right in the story with Brian which I love and that has never happened to me when I read any other book.The reason i chose the tittle ,Outstanding but not perfect was because there was one thing that I didn't like about the book which was how short it was I mean I understand it's hard to write a book but I would have found this book to be perfect if it was just a little longer.I also loved how Gary paulsen used the real story about how David and Anne get attacked and killed in the end of the story by a bear ,that was a real event that Gary heard about and he wrote that part of the book on that which i just liked I dont know why but I just did .So all in all this is a great book and i recomend it to any one who likes the out doors.

1.Brain is on his way back to Canada to stay with his friends. But on his way he finds a dog, he thought it was a wolf or something else. But when he gets over there it is a dog. He finds that the dog is bad shape,and the dog is starving and it is hurt, a big cut wound is on his side. Brain sews the dog back, and then they head out to find who did it.
2. I think this was a good book. I liked it because i've already the brain books and i liked the series. It has action and aventure, and i like action and aventure.
3. This book has good plot, because it keep me guessing and keeps contiuneing the brain books.
4. Reason for rating would be, it teachs you some hunting skills, action/aventure, and ways to track animals