Hatchet
Subtitle: A Newbery Honor Book
Edition: 1st Scholastic Printing ed. / This edition is only available for distribution through the school market.---Page 4 of cvr
Series: Scholastic Books
Publisher: Scholastic Inc., by arrangement with Viking Penguin, a div. of Penguin Books USA, Inc.
Published: October 1999
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780590981828
Copyright date: 1987 by Gary Paulsen
Description: Brian is on his way to Canada to visit his estranged father when the pilot of his small prop. plane suffers a heart attack. Brian is forced to crash-land the plane in a lake--and finds himself stranded in the remote Canadian wilderness with only his clothing and the hatchet his mother gave him as a gift prior to his departure.

The only survivor of a plane crash, Brian spends 54 days in the wilderness, learning to cope with only a hatchet given him by his mother and also learning to survive his parents' divorce.
Notes: ***Printed in the U.S.A.* / Reprint: Originally published: New York : Viking Penguin, ©1987. / "First Scholastic printing, Oct 1999"--Title page verso. " / *Sequel: The river.***