Title: Hatchet
First published: March 1, 2003
Description: Brian Robison, a teenage boy struggling through his parents divorce, is flying up north to stay with his dad for the summer. However, his plane crashes and he is forced to survive the Canadian wilderness. Now living in a world completely opposite of his own, he is now able to discover himself in this forsaken and misunderstood beautiful world.

The story is continued in "The River" "Brian's Winter" "Brian's Return" and "The Hunt"
Subjects: Divorce, plane crash, survival, Canada, fiction, Divorce, fiction, Children's fiction, Newbery Honor, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Hatchet, Gary Paulsen, 1988 Newbery Honor Book, Teens, Teenagers, Juvenile, YA, Young adult, Literature, Books, Stories, Chapter book, Faith, Cessna 406, Pilot, Heart attack, CPR, Airplane, Crash, Wilderness, Birds, Wildlife, Canadian Oil Fields, Choke cherries Gut cherries, Hazelnut Bushes, Secrets in divorces, Children of divorced parents, Ficción juvenil, Open Library Staff Picks, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, Divorcio, Supervivencia, Adventure stories, Self-reliance, Wilderness areas, Wilderness survival, fiction, Survival, fiction, Fiction, general, Wilderness survival, Airplane crash survival, Accelerated Reader, 6.1., Accelerated Reader - 6.1., Survival (Title), Hunting stories, Deer, Eskimos, Hunting, Self-perception, Histoires de chasse, Cerfs, Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Inuits, Habiletés de survie, Boys, fiction, Shipwreck survival, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / Survival Stories, JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Adolescence, Family, Washington (state), fiction
Places: Canada, Hampton, New York State
People: Brian Robison, God
Time periods: 70-80s, 1987