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Brian's Winter
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Brian's Winter
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Brian's Winter

Written by Gary Paulsen

Narrated by Richard Thomas

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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In Hatchet, 13-year-old Brian Robeson learned to survive alone in the Canadian wilderness, armed only with his hatchet. Finally, as millions of readers know, he was rescued at the end of the summer. But what if Brian hadn't been rescued? What if he had been left to face his deadliest enemy--winter?

Gary Paulsen raises the stakes for survival in this riveting and inspiring story as one boy confronts the ultimate test and the ultimate adventure.


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LanguageEnglish
Release dateJan 16, 2007
ISBN9780553751888
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Brian's Winter
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Gary Paulsen

GARY PAULSEN (1939 - 2021) wrote nearly two hundred books for young people, including the Newbery Honor Books Hatchet, Dogsong, and The Winter Room. 

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Great survival story, read it in one evening. I read Hatched over 8 years ago so Brian's Winter was like diving back into the story of survival in the Canadian wilderness.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Enjoyed the re-make of what happened during the winter months of Brian's survival.

    Boys enjoyed learning, and living through the winter of snow, hunger and survival.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Great addition to the series, and another simple story to listen to while relaxing or falling asleep.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    just as good as the others. my reviews are becoming lacking for these because its still good. repeating how good it is is unnecessary.
    If you likes Hatchet there is no reason to not finish these in the series.

    There is a good descriptive hunt in this one. might make you cringe a little.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    3.5 starsIn “Hatchet”, 13(?)-year old Brian is stranded in the Canadian North after a plane crash. What if winter had come and he was still there? This looks at Brian trying to survive the winter on his own. I listened to the audio and enjoyed it. It looks like I rated the first two books 4 stars each, but on thinking back, I feel like “Hatchet” should have been 4 stars and “The River” probably 3.5, same as this one. In any case, it was interesting to see the kinds of things Brian had to do/learn in order to survive over the winter.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Great survival story, read it in one evening. I read Hatched over 8 years ago so Brian's Winter was like diving back into the story of survival in the Canadian wilderness.

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  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    All of the books in the Hatchet series are worth reading or listening to, but this was my least favorite. The character of Brian Robeson, just didn't seem true to the original. There is an incident in the story that both my son and I looked at each other shaking our head thinking, "he wouldn't have done that!" And it put a chink in the story, but it is still good.

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  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    The alternate ending to Hatchet, but there’s not much different about this book than the original. Brian is still in the wild when the seasons change, but hunting and living in the winter doesn’t seem to cause him much problem. Even a bear attack barely harms him. The book is very long for the little amount of story it delivers, and the deus ex machina ending was a letdown. I knew it wasn’t possible for Brian to die in the wild, since there are more books coming after this one, but it REALLY would have made the book a lot better. I don’t recommend this at all.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    great book!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This short novel features an alternate ending for Paulson's novel Hatchet. In this book, Brian is not rescued at the end of summer. Instead, he has to face the northern winter.

    My incoming 7th grader read this as one of his summer reading choices off of a small list. He and I both enjoyed this more than we liked Hatchet. He found Hatchet very repetitive, I found it whiney (though I realize a boy SHOULD whine in such a situation, but it was tiring to read). In this book, Brian is much more confident in his ingenuity and abilities.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    In this volume, Paulsen has written a follow up volume to his very popular The Hatchet in which he suggests how Brian could have survived the winter. In The Hatchet he is rescued before winter arrives.In this volume Paulsen clearly explains how Brian might have found ways to make warm clothing, find food and build a warm shelter. Brian was lucky sometimes but he did show a calmness and maturity that may stretch one's credibility but it sure makes for a great read. This book is written for young adults.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Thank goodness my 10 year old fell in love with the Hatchet series but now I have too. I love that this book picks up where Hatchet left off as if he'd never gotten rescued.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    What if? What if Brian, lost in the northern wilderness in June, was not rescued by the time winter arrived? How could he survive the subzero cold, how could he eat, how could he stay warm?Author Gary Paulsen has taken the main character of his book Hatchet, and has spun another tale of perseverance and determination. As with the other books in this series, the reader is drawn into Brian's world, and kept there by an excellent storyteller. And as before, I did not want to put down Brian's Winter until the conclusion. Recommended.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I've read this book before and it's always a great read. This is my 3rd time and it's just as good as the 1st time I read it.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Brian "returns" to the Canadian wilderness in this sequel to Hatchet. The author wrote this in response to readers demands to see how Brian would survive through the winter if he had not been rescued when he was in the original story - "Hatchet".This story is excellent to assign as a book study after the students have heard Hatchet read aloud. They can then compare the two books and see how the author used the same voice in both the ensure that they reader still felt the same connection to Brian that they had in the first book.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    this book was awsome. it was just as good as the first book. there wasent a bad part in the whole book ecpt when it ended. becouse i wanted mor.

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Great
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Read Aloud or In Reading GroupsGenre: Fiction (Survival) Reading Level: 5th grade and upSummary: "A riveting and inspiring story is created by author Gary Paulsen as he begins with a new and harrowing ending to his classic favorite Newbery Honor-winning Hatchet. In this unique retelling of a young boy's struggle to survive in the Canadian wilderness, Paulsen raises the stakes with the question: what if Brian hadn't been rescued at the end of summer, but instead had been left to confront his deadliest enemy — a northern winter?”-ScholasticI love this book and several environmental education lessons could be taught. Being prepared, edible plants, ecosystems.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I really enjoyed reading this. The writing is quite poetic, and evokes the feeling of the bush.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This took off from the previous book very well; Paulsen has a very even, predictable voice that doesn't waiver much from book to book. I was a bit disappointed with the anti-climactic ending; Brian may as well as fallen into salvation.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Brian’s winter is a sequel to the book hatchet. Its story picks up right where our main character Brian had left off, still stranded in the middle of the Canadian woods, and with winter closing in on him, he has to further exploit his common knowledge and take to his instincts. His first problem is that he must create warmth, a, ore reliable and effective source of warmth. He must go out and discover new sources of warmth. As he struggles with this problem he stumbles across another problem, the difficulty to hunt and the need of a more effective way to hunt. He overcomes this by using the flint shards off a rock, these shard can be used as much sharper arrow heads, giving Brian the opportunity to hunt big game. After he has proven himself defiant of these problems his only difficulty is the thought of continuing to live like this for, maybe even the rest of his life. But that thought is discarded as he discovers another presence living near him in the woods. It turns out to be a family of three, surviving off the wilderness, and receiving supply visits by plane. That was Brian’s ticket out.Brian’s Winter is an extension of the award winning novel Hatchet. I have read hatchet and it was one of the most stimulating reads I have experienced, and the same feeling came back to me as I read Brian’s Winter. I didn’t expect any less form one of the best, and one of my favorite writers Gary Paulsen. This book was actually a request by many people, as they wanted to see what was in store for Brian as he tries to prove himself triumphant through the perils of winter. A Phenomenal read for all ages and preferences.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Gary Paulsen does his usual great job of storytelling in extending the story of Brian, who spends a winter in the wilderness (an alternate ending to an earlier Paulsen book, "Hatchet"). Paulsen keeps the story moving while including important and interesting details. This is a book that someone could read before heading to the wilderness and learn from in preparation for a wilderness experience -- not as an all-inclusive guide or survival book, but in giving hints for survival, and an inspiration in reading that another (albeit fictional character) survived wildreness challenges.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Brian’s Winter is a adventure novel written by Gary Paulsen. It was nominated in 1999 for a YRCA (youth division).While Brian’s Winter can be read as a standalone novel, it is pretty much is a supplement to Gary Paulsen’s famous, three-time Newberry Award winning novel, Hatchet. The novel provides an alternative ending to Hatchet, whereby the protagonist Brian Robeson is not rescued after being stranded for 54 days in the Canadian wilderness, and must learn to survive the harsh Canadian winter. The real strength of the novel is the author’s masterful balance of quick-paced action and detailed descriptions. That being said, Brian’s Winter is an inferior novel compared to the more well-rounded Hatchet, especially in terms of character development. Therefore, I would recommend readers to read Hatchet first, before moving on to Brian’s Winter, for the “full experience”. Overall, Brian’s Winter is must-read for any fan of Hatchet or adventure/survival fiction. It is a very enjoyable, fast-paced read at only 134 pages.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This was a good book about a teenager named Brian who is surviving in the woods alone. I liked it because it was interesting. I can sort of relate to it because I like to hunting in the woods. In one of the book Brian starts off as him being a pilot and he fly’s the pilot because the pilot has a heart attack now Brian is alone in the woods. Brian's winter is about if he wasn't saved, he would have to face winter and its challenges that he has to take on. I liked when he shot down a six hundred pound moose, he used a small handmade bow and a spear. There was nothing that I found bad in this book.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This was a very good book about an individual teenager named Brian who was surviving in the woods alone. I liked it so much because it was educational and I can kind of relate to it because I like exploring in the woods so it was very interesting to me. In the first book Brian's Hunt it all  starts off as his pilot and him flying and the pilot has a heart attack and crashes. So Brian is now alone. In the next book im not sure what it is called he is saved. But Brian's Winter is based on what it would be like if he wasn't saved so he would have to face winter and it's challenges. One part that I really liked was when he took down a six hundred pound moose with a small self made bow and a spear. There was nothing I really found bad about this book. It was one of my favorite books.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Probably one of the best books i have ever read, tells a greattale of the winter time when brian was stranded. It feels like its real
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Brians winter was the next book to the book hatchet, it was not close to as good of a book that hatchet was and was a disappointment to me..
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    In the prologue Gary Paulsen says he received a lot of letters saying they thought Brian had been rescued too soon and they thought it would be more of a survival story if he had been there all winter too. Paulson said the summer story was necessary to this because if Brian hadn’t learned to live in the summer he wouldn’t have made it in the winter.I love that he ends up with a skunk as his best friend and lifesaver. I liked this one but not as much as Hatchet as it felt a little rushed. I would suggest reading this one second before reading The River I think having read The River with so much about after he is rescued it skewed my thoughts on this one because of all the research he did after he was rescued.All in all a good book but I enjoyed Hatchet better.3 ½ Stars
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    In Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen, he wrote this book like Brian never got rescued from the "Hatchet." So, instead of getting rescued Brian had to survive a winter in the Canadian outdoors. He is forced to make many objects to help him survive and to kill animals like rabbits for food. He had only eaten fish that he had caught or rabbit that he had killed during this entire trip.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    It was a very good book for someone who likes a ,leaves you in suspense book.