Brian's Return

Brian's Return is a 1999 wilderness survival novel written by Gary Paulsen and fourth novel in the Hatchet series.

It was also released as Hatchet: The Call by Macmillan Children's Books in the UK on January 8, 1999.

Plot

Sixteen year old Brian Robeson does not like his life in the city. When he gets in a fight with a boy his age, he responds as if he were being attacked in the wild and badly injures the boy. He is stopped by the police and sent to a counselor named Caleb. After talking to Brian, Caleb realizes that there is nothing wrong with him. After talking for a while, Caleb makes Brian realize how much he misses the woods. Brian eventually realizes that he can't live in the city anymore. After compiling a list of materials, Brian returns to the wild. After a while Brian meets an old man named Billy. Brian tells him about an incident when he was about to kill a deer but decided against it. Billy tells him it's his "medicine deer" and to always listen to it. Later Billy leaves but gives him the tail of a deer. Brian later encounters a bear but is able to scare it off. Later Brian decides not to go to the Smallhorns and to stay in the bush. He then returns home to find that he really misses the wild

Continuity with series

Brian's Return is followed chronologically by the sequel, Brian's Hunt. Brian's Hunt is the last book in the series.

References

Brian is a sixteen year old boy. but when his plane crashes in the book (HACHET) he has nobody to help him it is up to him to survive in the wilderness