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Hatchet
Children's fiction
Hatchet
Book 1 of the Brian's Saga series
208 pages · First published 1987
Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is flying to visit his father after his parents’ divorce when the pilot dies and the small plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness. Alone with little more than his clothes and the hatchet his mother gave him, Brian must learn to build shelter, make fire, find food, and understand the animals and weather around him. His physical survival is complicated by anger and by a secret about his mother that has haunted him since the divorce. Gary Paulsen’s Newbery Honor novel is an intense wilderness coming-of-age story about ingenuity, persistence, and the transformation that occurs when a boy discovers he can survive far more than he imagined.
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