Brian's Return: A Hatchet Adventure, Book 4
Written by Gary Paulsen
Narrated by Peter Coyote
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Brian returns to the wilderness to discover where he truly belongs in this follow-up to the award-winning classic Hatchet from three-time Newbery Honor-winning author Gary Paulsen!
As millions of readers of Hatchet, The River, and Brian's Winter know, Brian Robeson survived alone in the wilderness by finding solutions to extraordinary challenges. But now that's he's back to ordinary life, he can't make sense of high school life. He feels disconnected, more isolated than he did alone in the north woods. How can Brian discover his true path in life, and where he belongs? The answer is to return.
Gay Paulsen skillfully explores the meaning of belonging and purpose, and reminds us of a crucial rule of the wilderness: expect the unexpected.
Read all the Hatchet Adventures!
Brian's Winter
The River
Brian's Return
Brian's Hunt
Gary Paulsen
Gary Paulsen (1931–2021) was one of the most honored writers of contemporary literature for young readers, author of three Newbery Honor titles, Dogsong, Hatchet, and The Winter Room. He wrote over 100 books for adults and young readers.
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Reviews for Brian's Return
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I am reading this book in school! I had homework so I read it on here! I love this book!!!!
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5A rather disappointing addition to the series. Half of the novel is simply getting up into the bush. while a decent amount happen es once there it felt like none of it was a challenge for Brian except for perhaps the very end of the story.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nice to hear more about Brian, and the after word about/but the author was great as well! I would love to see a book about his personal experiences. He sounds like a neat guy.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was the quickest and probably least intense of the books but everything that happens was expected to happen. The book had to be written for Brian to be who he became.
Still great. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This fourth book in the series has Brian back at home in the city, but longing to be back in nature and really not fitting in. He manages to convince his counsellor and his mom that he should head back out to the wilderness. This one was super short, so only about ½ of it was in the wilderness. Which for me is the most interesting part. Also, very unrealistic – to think the adults would let him go back on his own (he was supposed to be meeting up with someone, but how come an adult didn’t accompany him that far?). I did find the author’s note at the end very interesting, though.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I liked this book because I liked that fact that Brian went back to the wilderness. He follows his heart and that rang true with me. I sometimes Gary pushes it a bit with relation to the number of attacks Brian survives without serious injury but hey, his coping is what the book is about and the story would be over pretty quickly if he was severely injured or died. I re-read four of these books partly as research for a novel I am currently writing in which surviving in the Canadian north is an important part. If you want a quick read that is well written and entertaining I would recommend Gary Paulsen as an author.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I enjoyed most of it but would have enjoyed it more if he went to the trappers like intended.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is book #4 of the Hatchet series and one of my favorites. It's explained why he felt he couldn't fit in, the reasons he wanted to return and I really liked the new character of Caleb.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In this final installation of the series that began with "Hatchet", we journey with Brian as he returns to the wilderness, to answer a call that will not be denied.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book is about a teenager named Brian. This book is the second book after Hatchet. After what had happened in the first book, Brian getting stranded in the Canadian woods for almost two months after a plane crash, Brian is having a hard time fitting in with regular teen and high school life. Brian then goes to the school counselor to get help and is told that it will help if Brian goes back out to the wilderness for a little bit. So this time he packs a lot of camping gear so that he wouldn't starve, get to cold, or get dehydrated. He also takes his canoe. He tells his mom what he is going to do and she is okay with it. He goes on a trip back and canoes down a river for quite a while and then gets there. He faces some problems, but he faces them and fixes the problems. He learns a lot about himself on his trip and learns that he is meant to be in the outdoors. I liked this book for basically the same reasons as Hatchet. This was a good book for me because I am a Boy Scout and this book has a lot to do with wilderness survival and being prepared. This would probably be a good book for anybody that is a Boy Scout or people that are into the outdoors. This book teaches you that you always need to be prepared. I recommend this book to middle school kids even though Brian is in High School because it isn't a high enough reading level for high school, but it is good for middle school. Younger kids shouldn't read this book just because they might not understand what is going on. I am probably going to read the other books in this series and I think you should too.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Read Aloud or In Reading GroupsGenre: Fiction (Survival) Reading Level: 5th grade and upSummary: "As millions of readers of Hatchet, The River, and Brian's Winter know, Brian Robeson survived alone in the wilderness by finding solutions to extraordinary challenges. Sixteen-year-old Brian hasn't been able to forget his life in the wilderness. Now that's he's back in civilization, he can't find a way to make sense of high school life. He feels disconnected, more isolated than he did alone in the North. After some trouble at school, a blind counselor named Caleb encourages him to return to the north woods, and Brian packs his gear and heads "back in," for only in the wilderness can Brian discover his true path in life, and where he belongs.”-ScholasticI love this book and several environmental education lessons could be taught. Being prepared, edible plants, ecosystems.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A phenomenal conclusion to the series. It's far less "adventury" than the other books, and much more serene. The woods has stopped being Brian's enemy; something to conquer or survive, but something with which to merge.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Brian Robeson has lived back at home for a while after being stranded in the wilderness. He feels a strong connection to the forest and decides to return and fend for himself again. He encounters a flood and other problems.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Brian's Return is a great book. It is about a boy named Brian who was once lost in the woods and doesn't feel right back in his normal life. He now decides to journey back into the wilderness one last time.There is a lot of action in this book. Brian is always learning new survival techniques and which equipment to use.Brian faces many problems in this book. Instead of giving up Brian tries and tries to solve his problems.This book is part of the Hatchet series. I have now read all of the books in this series. My favorite has to be the original, Hatchet.Gary Paulson wrote a great book. I liked it but if you don't like any of the others don't read it. The only thing I felt wasn't needed was the way he wrote the beginning, it is just like Brian's Hunt.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gary Paulsen is famous for Hatchet, the first of his books about Brian, a young teen who had to learn how to survive in the wild in Northern Canada. In Brian’s Return, Brian had been found and rescued two years earlier, and he went back to school and tried to get along with people, but he found that he could not fit into society after surviving on his own in the woods. Life as most people knew it did not seem real to him anymore.After sharing his experiences with a counselor who was very interested in what Brian had learned, it became clear that Brian needed to go back. The first time, Brian had been stranded in the wilderness after a plane crash, and all he had to work with was a hatchet that his mom had given him. He told his parents that he was going back to Canada to visit the Native American family that had rescued him, but he neglected to tell them that for most of the trip he would be on his own. This time he packed lots of gear to make it easier than it had been the first time.This is a good book for escape because it takes the reader into another world. At the end of the book there is an author’s note where he explains that most of the things Brian experienced were very close to what he had actually experienced. That made the book much more meaningful to think about how this could all actually happen!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Brian's Return by Gary Paulsen is the sequel to my favorite book of all time. So of coarse im going to think it is a great book. In the book Brian gets rescued by a pilot and he gets to return home, but Brian was very thin and always took a little extra intrest in nature after his experiance. I thought Gary Paulsen did a great job ending the hatchet with this sequel.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This was a good follow up to the previous two books in the series, however I was not that crazy as to how the book turned out. I think that it would be a good book to encourage a class to read but only if the first two books had been read and the class showed interest in following Brian's life. I also think that this book would not flow that well in certain school settings and that it might work better in schools in more urban settings.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Brian's return is the sequel to Brian's winter where he comes back to society and finds that he does not seem to belong as how he did before he went into the forest, as what the people call, "The Bush". He learns that he should go back to the bush to look for what his soul is thinking of looking for.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is the fourth in Paulsen's Brian series. In Hatchet, Brian was lost in the Canadian wilderness and had to learn to survive. In this book, he returns to the wilderness to find himself. I love the way Paulsen describes in detail everything Brian has to do. Paulsen has lived most of what Brian goes through, so he really knows his stuff.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book was o.k. but it wasent as good as the first or the second book. I would recomend this book to any one who read hatchet and liked it. I did not like this book as much as the first book becouse it wasent as detaled as the books befor it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Brian Robeson became a hero after surviving 54 days in the wilderness with only a hatchet and a $20 bill. In the following months, the press hounded him and he was a superstar. When one man asks him to return to show him how he did it, there was a plan to keep them alive. But this plan had one flaw, a deadly flaw...