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Brian's Hunt is a 2003 young adult novel by Gary Paulsen. This is the fifth and last book in the award-winning Hatchet series, which deals with Brian Robeson, a boy who learns wilderness survival when he is stranded after a plane wreck.
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Brian, now sixteen years older, is canoeing through the Canadian wilderness. He realizes that the woods are now his home and he will never be happy in modern society, with its noise, pollution, and fake people. He now spends his time in the wild, hunting, fishing, and home schooling himself. While Brian does not miss human contact, he finds his thoughts frequently turning to Kay-gwa-daush (also known as Susan), the teenage daughter of the Cree family who rescued him at the end of Brian's Winter. Though he has only seen her photograph, her family has described her as an adventurous, self-reliant young woman, and Brian wonders if she might be a kindred spirit.
While canoeing, Brian finds a seriously wounded malamute dog, which he nurses back to health. The dog is clearly domesticated, and Brian begins to worry that whatever maimed the dog may have done the same to her masters. He every so often thinks that it's a bear, but he disagrees with himself. Why would a bear do this for no apparent reason? He remembers his Cree friends and decides to go check on them.
When Brian reaches their cabin, he finds that it really was a bear that had killed the parents and apparently chased Susan into hiding. Brian returns her to her home, radios for help, and buries the family. The authorities arrive to take Susan to relatives in Winnipeg. Brian, along with the dog, stays behind in order to hunt down and kill the bear, knowing very well that the hunt could cost him his life.
Brian, using his bush skills he had learned in past books like Hatchet and Brian's Winter, searches for the bear that felled his friends. But soon, the hunter becomes the hunted. Brian finds bear tracks on an island and begins to follow them. He later realizes that he was walking in a circle. The bear is actually hunting Brian. So the next day, instead of moving on, he waits for the bear, and after a hard fought battle with the bear, Brian is triumphant.
Works by Gary Paulsen |
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Brian's saga |
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Murphy series |
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Alida's series |
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Culpepper Adventures |
The Case of the Dirty Bird · Dunc's Doll · Culpepper's Cannon · Dunc Gets Tweaked · Dunc's Halloween · Dunc Breaks the Record · Dunc and the Flaming Ghost · Amos Gets Famous · Dunc and Amos Hit the Big Top · Dunc's Dump · Dunc and the Scam Artists · Dunc and Amos and the Red Tattoos · Dunc's Undercover Christmas · Wild Culpepper Cruise · Dunc and the Haunted Castle · Cowpokes and Desperadoes · Prince Amos · Coach Amos · Amos and the Alien · Dunc and Amos Meet the Slasher · Dunc and the Greased Sticks of Doom · Amos's Killer Concert Caper · Amos Gets Married · Amos Goes Bananas · Dunc and Amos Go to the Dogs · Amos and the Vampire · Amos and the Chameleon Caper · Amos Binder, Secret Agent · Dunc and Amos on Thin Ice · Super Amos · Amos Meets the Slasher
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Nightjohn series |
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The Tucket Adventures |
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World of Adventure |
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Tales to Tickle the Funnybone |
The Boy Who Owned the School · Harris and Me · The Schernoff Discoveries · The Glass Cafe · The Amazing Life of Birds · Molly McGinty Has a Really Good Day · Lawn Boy
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Other books |
The Special War · Some Birds Don't Fly · Chance for Escape · The Death Specialists · The Implosion Effect · C. B. Jockey · The Golden Stick · Tiltawhirl John · The C. B. Radio Caper · Foxman · Winterkill · The Curse of the Cobra · The Green Recruit · The Spitball Gang · Compkill · The Sweeper · Campkill · Clutterkill · Dancing Carl · Popcorn Days and Buttermilk Nights · Tracker · Dogsong · Sentries · The Crossing · The Island · Night Rituals · The Voyage of the Frog · The Winter Room · Canyons · Kill Fee · The Night the White Deer Died · The Monument · Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass · Tasting the Thunder · The Haymeadow · A Christmas Sonata · Dogteam · The Fourteenth Summer · The Car · The Tent · The Tortilla Factory · The Rifle · Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers · Worksong · Ice Race · The Transall Saga · Soldier's Heart · Blue Light · Canoe Days · The Beet Fields · The White Fox Chronicles · The Time Hackers · The Legend of Bass Reeves
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Non-fiction |
The Grass-Eaters: Real Animals · The Small Ones · Hitting, Pitching, and Running · Martin Luther King: The Man Who Climbed the Mountain · Dribbling, Shooting, and Scoring · Careers in an Airport · Tackling, Running, and Kicking · Riding, Roping, and Bulldogging · Farm: A History And Celebration of the American Farmer · Running, Jumping, and Throwing · Successful Home Repair: When Not to Call the Contractor · Forehanding and Backhanding · Hiking and Backpacking · Downhill, Hotdogging and Cross-Country · Facing Off, Checking and Goaltending · Launching, Floating High and Landing · Pummeling, Falling and Getting Up-Sometimes · Track, Enduro and Motocross · Canoeing, Kayacking, and Rafting · Going Very Fast in a Circle · Athletics: Focus On Sport · Ice Hockey: Focus On Sport · Motor Cycling: Focus On Sport · Motor Racing: Focus On Sport · Skiing: Focus On Sport · Tennis: Focus On Sport · T.V. and Movie Animals · Money Saving Home Repair Guide: Successful Home Improvement Series · Sailing: From Jibs to Jibing · Beat the System: A Survival Guide · The Madonna Stories · Woodsong · Full of Hot Air: Launching, Floating High, And Landing · A Guide for Using Hatchet in the Classroom · Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod · Father Water, Mother Woods · Eastern Sun, Winter Moon: An Autobiographical Odyssey · My Life in Dog Years · Pilgrimage on a Steel Ride: A Memoir of Men and Motorcycles · All Aboard: Stories from Big Books · Zero to Sixty: A Motorcycle Journey Through Midlife · Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books · Caught by the Sea · How Angel Petersen Got His Name
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