On school reading lists, Gary Paulsen’s ‘Hatchet’ isn’t just required, it’s desired

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Across
  1. 3. State where Paulsen died
  2. 4. Skill of using what you have to survive
  3. 5. City Brian is from
  4. 8. Author of Hatchet
  5. 10. very eager or enthusiastic.
  6. 11. Emotion-filled description of the crash scene
  7. 14. not willing to do something and therefore slow to do it
  8. 15. seeming to be everywhere
  9. 17. School librarian who called it a “home run book”
  10. 18. 13-year-old protagonist of Hatchet
Down
  1. 1. Children’s novel about wilderness survival
  2. 2. Theme of bouncing back from hardship
  3. 6. Paulsen novel besides Hatchet set in rural Minnesota
  4. 7. Gift from Brian’s mother that saves his life
  5. 9. Bookstore owner who called it a “survival story for the ages”
  6. 12. Wilderness where Brian survives
  7. 13. Paulsen novel besides Hatchet about Inuit culture
  8. 16. Librarian who vividly remembers Hatchet