Brian Robeson is a 13-year-old boy traveling by a Cessna 406 bushplane to visit his father in northern Canada for the summer. However, during the flight the pilot dies of a heart attack and Brian must land the plane, but he ends up crash-landing in a lake out in the middle of the wilderness. He escapes the place before it sinks with nothing but his hatchet, which was a gift from his mother. While stuck in the wilderness, Brian tries to survive with only his hatchet and quickly learns various survival techniques. He builds fires with his hatchet and finds food where he can. He eventually becomes a craftsman and makes himself a bow, arrows, a spear, and shelter. While alone Brian fights with memories of his mother cheating on his father. After 54 day in the wilderness a tornado hits the area bringing the plane out of the lake and Brian is able to salvage some supplies, including a transmitter that Brian believes to be broken. Brian is in for a surprise. —Alison Defenbach
HATCHET by Gary Paulsen (1987)
Bradbury Press. 195 pages. ISBN: 0027701301. Named a Newbery Honor Book, 1988.
Brian Robeson is a 13-year-old boy traveling by a Cessna 406 bushplane to visit his father in northern Canada for the summer. However, during the flight the pilot dies of a heart attack and Brian must land the plane, but he ends up crash-landing in a lake out in the middle of the wilderness. He escapes the place before it sinks with nothing but his hatchet, which was a gift from his mother. While stuck in the wilderness, Brian tries to survive with only his hatchet and quickly learns various survival techniques. He builds fires with his hatchet and finds food where he can. He eventually becomes a craftsman and makes himself a bow, arrows, a spear, and shelter. While alone Brian fights with memories of his mother cheating on his father. After 54 day in the wilderness a tornado hits the area bringing the plane out of the lake and Brian is able to salvage some supplies, including a transmitter that Brian believes to be broken. Brian is in for a surprise. —Alison Defenbach
Brian Robeson is a 13-year-old boy traveling by a Cessna 406 bushplane to visit his father in northern Canada for the summer. However, during the flight the pilot dies of a heart attack and Brian must land the plane, but he ends up crash-landing in a lake out in the middle of the wilderness. He escapes the place before it sinks with nothing but his hatchet, which was a gift from his mother. While stuck in the wilderness, Brian tries to survive with only his hatchet and quickly learns various survival techniques. He builds fires with his hatchet and finds food where he can. He eventually becomes a craftsman and makes himself a bow, arrows, a spear, and shelter. While alone Brian fights with memories of his mother cheating on his father. After 54 day in the wilderness a tornado hits the area bringing the plane out of the lake and Brian is able to salvage some supplies, including a transmitter that Brian believes to be broken. Brian is in for a surprise. —Alison Defenbach
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