Hatchet by Gary Paulsen is about this boy, Brian Robeson, whose parents were divorced.
Brian hated the word divorce as it meant fights, lawyers and yelling at each other. When the papers were signed, it was decided that Brian would live with his mother and during the summer or the winter holidays, he would stay at his dad's.
He took a plane on this fateful day, heading for his father's place and would be involved in a plane accident as the pilot had a heart attack. The plane was a small Cessna plane and it crashed into the Canadian wilderness.
Alone in the Canadian forest woth nothing other than his tattered windbreaker and his HATCHET, he survives using his wits, determination, resourcefulness and courage in this forest full of rare animals and plants that may even turn out to be inedible.
He survives for a total of fifty four days in the forest and a pilot found him through the emergency transmitter that Brian had activated by accident.
This is a Newberry Honor Book, ALA Best book for Young Adults, ALA Notable Children's Book and a winner of multiple state awards.
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