Brian's Saga #4: Brian's Return
Brian's Saga Series Book #4 of 5  
Author: Gary Paulsen
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| Published on January 12, 1999 | | Age Group: 12 - 17 years | | Reading Level: | AR: 5.5 (4.0 Points, Quiz #25297)
GLE: 5.3
F&P/GRL: T
DRA: 50
Lexile® measure: 1030L |
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Summary:
After having survived alone in the wilderness, Brian finds that he can no longer live in the city but must return to the place where he really belongs.
Excerpt/First Sentence(s):
Brian sat quietly, taken by a peace he had not known for a long time, and let the canoe drift forward along the lily pads. To his right was the shoreline of a small lake he had flown into an hour earlier. Around him was the lake itself, an almost circular body of water of approximately eighty acres surrounded by northern forest—pine, spruce, poplar and birch—and thick brush.
It was late spring—June 3, to be exact—and the lake was teeming, crawling, buzzing and flying with life. Mosquitos and flies filled the air, swarming on him, and he smiled now, remembering his first horror at the small blood drinkers. In the middle of the canoe he had an old coffee can with some kindling inside it, and a bit of birchbark, and he lit them and dropped a handful of green poplar leaves on the tiny fire. Soon smoke billowed out and drifted back and forth across the canoe and the insects left him. He had repellant with him this time—along with nearly two hundred pounds of other gear—but he hated the smell of it and found it didn't work as well as a touch of smoke now and then. The blackflies and deerflies and horseflies ignored repellant completely—he swore they seemed to lick it off—but they hated the smoke and stayed well off the canoe.
The relief gave him time to see the rest of the activity on the lake. He remained still, watching, listening.
Publisher Description:
As millions of readers of Hatchet, The River, and Brian's Winter know, Brian Robeson survived alone in the wilderness by finding solutions to extraordinary challenges. But now that's he's back in civilization, he can't find a way to make sense of high school life. He feels disconnected, more isolated than he did alone in the North. The only answer is to return - to "go back in" - for only in the wilderness can Brian discover his true path in life, and where he belongs.
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