Brian's Return

shade - Brian's return If you've wanted to read a book but didn't know if it was good you'd look for a book review; enough said here's my review now brains return is the fourth book of Brian's saga by Gary paulsen. Though it may not be as good as hatchet it is still a decent read After Brian is rescued from being stranded in a forest alone with only a hatchet Brian starts to realize that the city is not for him as he starts to doze off while in conversation and attack savagely if he is attacked. After going through counseling he talks about live back in the forest and starts accumulating items to return to the forest for a visit. In my opinion this book is mostly filler for the next book in Brian's saga. I'd recommend this book to loyal fans of the series who'd read every book to not miss a single beat in the story.

May 14, 2001
. In a starred review of yet another sequel to Hatchet, PW
called the work "bold, confident and persuasive, its transcendental themes powerfully seductive." Ages 12-up.

Starred review from January 11, 1999
The appearance of yet another sequel to Hatchet may raise a few eyebrows, but Paulsen delivers a vigorous, stirring story that stands on its own merits. Whereas the previous continuations, The River and Brian's Winter, essentially offer more of the same survivalist thrills that have made Hatchet so popular, this novel goes further, posing a more profound question: How does someone go from living on the edge to polite membership in ordinary society? (Paulsen addresses the same theme, albeit more grimly, in his Civil War novel Soldier's Heart.) Here, Brian has returned to his mother's house and can barely reconcile the seemingly arbitrary demands of high school with the life-or-death challenges he surmounted during his months alone in the wilderness. With the aid of a counselor, Brian formulates what had been an almost instinctual, unacknowledged plan to revisit the bush, and this solo trip, not his interlude with his mother, marks the true "return" of the title. The few cliff-hangers are almost beside the point: the great adventure here is the embrace of the wild, the knowledge of life at its most elemental. Aside from its occasional use of YA conventions (e.g., the preternaturally sensitive counselor; jejune rhapsodies over the relevance of Shakespeare), this work is bold, confident and persuasive, its transcendental themes powerfully seductive. Ages 12-up.