Hatchet, Gary Paulsen's Award Winning Novel
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen Review by Rae Richen I have a young friend who used to have trouble reading. We meet twice a week and he works on his skills in reading. He is now in the eighth grade. When we first met, he had the habit of skipping lines, not thinking about the meaning of the words, phrases and sentences he read. When confronted with long words, he would pick a word out of the air that might make sense. That was some time ago. By this year, he has leaned to use his pl