Hatchet
Hatchet
Brian Robeson is a thirteen-year-old son of divorced parents. As he travels from Hampton, New York by plane to visit his father in the oil fields in Northern Canada for the summer, the pilot suffers a massive heart attack and dies. Brian tries to land the plane, but ends up crash-landing into a lake in the forest. He must learn to survive on his own with nothing but his hatchet—a gift his mother gave him shortly before his plane departed. (Wikipedia)
Library Resources
F PAU Hatchet
F PAU Hatchet: The Call
F PAU Hatchet: Winter
823.092 PAU Hatchet: The truth (The true story behind Hatchet.)
813.09 PAU Hatchet: The English Club resources
813.09 PAU Hatchet: Gary Paulsen: A study guide for Grades 6 and up
DVD0376 A Call in the Wild (Film adaption of Hatchet)
Online Resources about Hatchet:
Sparknotes – chapter summaries, themes, characters
Hatchet – Teacher Notes
Scholastic – Hatchet teacher notes
Storyboard – Teacher notes, questions and activities
Free activity sheets for Hatchet
Lesson plans and teaching resources for Hatchet
Stinson plane crash
The 1937…Stinson crash was an accident which occurred on 19 February 1937. The airliner disappeared during a flight from Brisbane to Sydney, carrying five passengers and two pilots. Both pilots and two passengers were killed in the crash. One of the surviving passengers died while attempting to bring help to the other survivors.
The wreckage was found by Bernard O’Reilly of the Lamington Guest House who went looking for the aircraft believing it had failed to cross the border. The aircraft had crashed in the on the border between Queensland and New South Wales. (Wikipedia. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Library Resources
363.12 BEC Crash! The search for the Stinson by Jennifer Beck & Dyan Blacklock
994.32 ORE Green mountains by Bernard O’Reilly
DVD0330 Miracle of the mountains (DVD)
Stinson search retraced – Courier Mail
Newspaper article 1937 about the Stinson