Hatchet
By: Gary Paulsen ; with connections.
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Survival -- Fiction.; Divorce -- Fiction.; Canada -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
Notes: Newbery Honor Book, 1988
Novel, followed by narratives and excerpts from related stories and a biographical sketch of the author.
Sequel: The river.