Hatchet /
Gary Paulsen.
- New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, c1987.
- 195 p. ; 22 cm.
Sequel: The river.
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.
Newbery Honor Book, 1988.
059098182X
Divorce--Juvenile fiction. Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.--Juvenile fiction.