Hatchet

By: Gary Paulsen

brian is on his way to canada to visit his estranged father when the pilot of his small prop plane suffers a heart attack. brian is forced to crash-land the plane in a lake--and finds himself stranded in the remote canadian wilderness with only his clothing and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present before his departure. brian had been distraught over his parents' impending divorce and the...