Brian's Hunt (2005) (edit title/settings)

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• Brian Robeson: Brian is a boy who loves nature. Brian also loves to learn. Brian has learned from being back that he hates society and wishes to live in the wilderness. So he talked to his teachers and parents and they all came up with a plan for him to do what he wants
• Susan: Susan is an Indian girl that Brian has become friends with. She lives with her parents Anne and David. She unfortunately got attacked by a bear but she still lived.
• David: David was an Indian man who lived with is family on an island in the Canadian north. He was attacked by a bear and was killed try to fight him off.
• Anne: Anne was a Indian women that had lived with her family in the north. she was blindsided by a bear and it had killed her.
• Brian's dog: Dog Brian finds during his travels, helps him kill the devil bear and later becomes Brian's pet.
• Devil bear: Bear that kills David and Anne, which Brian and his dog kill for Susan to avenge her parents death.

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• his body did not want to come up into consciousness. But so much of him was tuned now to reacting to odd things, a line that did not belong where it was, a sound that should not be there, an odd color or smell. He had almost gone crazy on his last visit back to civilization. Sirens and stink of smoke and bangs and rattles and noise—it had all meshed together and desensitized him to the point where he’d heard nothing because it was so overwhelming.

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• Inuits hunting seal on the ice would squat over a seal breathing hole for hours, even days, waiting for the seal to come up in the hole to get air. The Inuit would put a small piece of feather over the hole and stand with bone harpoon ready and when the seal came into the hole the air pushing ahead of its body would ruffle the feather and the hunter would lunge with the harpoon and bury the barbed head in the back of the seal.

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• into a state of overload and a kind of shock and open disbelief that people could actually live, or pretend to live, the way they did.

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• Battle of Gettysburg or when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

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• In some way, the dog filled a hole in his life, filled a loneliness

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• Kay-gwa-daush’s white name was Susan Smallhorn but

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• Patience was the key, the absolutely most important part of hunting anything,

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• brown eyes, a full mouth and straight nose and long, thick, richly black hair, and he had never met her. Her father, David Smallhorn, had shown him her picture,

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• the island were Brians friends live: a small island in the middle of a huge lake that contains many differant kinds of wildlife and many hills which bears dont like to go up and down on.

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• cree indian tribe: it is the tribe that Brians friends belong to. they dont go with the traditional ways any more they mainly use rifles to hunt sith instead of bows

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Errata edit see section history

this book was supposed to be the last one but the way he ended it and the epologe says that there will be another book in the Brian series.

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Preceded by Brian's Return.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Gary Paulsen (Author)

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Notes for Parents edit see section history

this book is a lexile range of 1180.

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• Books › Children's Books › Science, Nature & How It Works › Nature › Fiction
• Books › Children's Books › Series › Classics › Brian Books
• Books › Teens › Authors, A-Z › ( P ) › Paulsen, Gary
• Books › Outdoors & Nature › Survival Skills

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