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Brian's Hunt Gary Paulsen Hardcover | Wendy Lamb Books | 0-385-74647-4 | December 2003 | $14.95 | Ages 10 and up

Now 16 years old, Brian Robeson returns to the Canadian wilderness where he survived for 54 days when he was 13. Armed with a few more tools than his original hatchet, he sets up camp and begins the solitary life of a lone hunter whose dance with nature is far more important than the superficial and materialistic lifestyle of his peers back home. When he discovers a wounded dog and fresh bear tracks, Brian begins a hunt of a different sort. He realizes that something is gravely wrong, and when he stumbles upon a Cree Summer Camp, the smell of blood leads him into a cabin where fear almost strangles him, and death lingers in the air. Is he really prepared for this dark and ugly side of nature?

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Prepared by Pat Scales, Director of Library Services, the South Carolina Governor's School for Arts and Humanities, Greenville, SC

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