Author: Gary Paulsen
Reading Age: 10-12

The internationally best-selling story of survival against the odds.

Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is on his way to visit his father when the single-engine plane in which he is flying crashes.

Suddenly, Brian finds himself alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but a tattered Windbreaker and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present — and the dreadful secret that has been tearing him apart since his parent's divorce.

But now Brian has no time for anger, self pity, or despair — it will take all his know-how and determination, and more courage than he knew he possessed, to survive.

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