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Release date
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780739344415
- File size: 106742 KB
- Duration: 03:42:22
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- ATOS Level: 5.7
- Lexile® Measure: 1020
- Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
- Text Difficulty: 6-8
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Reviews
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October 1, 1988
This Newbery Honor book is a dramatic, heart-stopping story of a boy who, following a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness, must learn to survive with only a hatchet and his own wits. Ages 12-up. -
Brian Robeson, the sole passenger in a single-engine plane, is on his way to visit his father in the Canadian oil fields when his pilot suffers a heart attack. Alone and desperate, Brian guides the plane to a landing on an isolated lake. In a straightforward but compelling narration, Coyote captures Brian's terror, anguish and exultation as he learns to survive alone in the wilderness. Abridgment is imperceptible. Musical effects underscore an air of suspense, mystery and dread. D.M.L. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine -
The story of thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson's survival in the Canadian wilderness is undone by this unfortunate production. Coyote, whose voice is perfect for telling this story, reads at one pace and in one tone of voice throughout, eliminating tension and suspense, as well as humor and compassion. Background music interrupts when the listener is most drawn in, making concentration on the narrative difficult. A sad rendering of a thrilling adventure. S.G. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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September 1, 1987
When the pilot of a small, two-person plane has a heart attack and dies, Brian has to crash land in the forest of a Canadian wilderness. He has little time to realize how alone he is, because he is so busy just trying to survive. And learning to survive, to plan on food not just for a day but untiland ifhe is rescued, only begins when he stops pitying himself and understands that no one can help him. He is on his own, without his divorced father, whom he was to visit, or his mother, whom Brian saw kissing another man before the divorce. This is a heart-stopping story: it seems that at every moment Brian is forced to face a life-and-death decision, and every page makes readers wonder at the density of descriptive detail Paulsen has expertly woven together. Poetic texture and realistic events are combined to create something beyond adventure, a book that plunges readers into the cleft of the protagonist's experience. Ages 11-13.
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