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Free Hatchet Word Search (Printable PDF + Answer Key)
In Gary PAULSEN’s novel Hatchet, thirteen-year-old BRIAN Robeson is the only passenger on a small plane when the PILOT has a heart attack. After the PLANE CRASH into a LAKE in the Canadian WILDERNESS, Brian has nothing but the HATCHET his mother gave him. This free word search follows how he survives: building a SHELTER, learning to make FIRE when the hatchet strikes sparks off rock, and finding food.
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The rest of the grid comes from his weeks alone: the GUT CHERRIES that make him sick, the FOOLBIRDS he learns to hunt, the PORCUPINE in his shelter, the MOOSE that attacks him, the TORNADO that wrecks his camp and the SURVIVAL PACK he finally pulls from the sunken plane. The word list is medium and suits readers from about 10 up. The printable PDF has the answer key on page two. More in the books and literature word searches and the camping word searches.
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