Hardcover, 208 pages
English language
Published Sept. 30, 1987 by Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books.
Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen
5 stars
(1 review)
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
- Adventure stories
- Fiction dealing with divorce, separation, family break-up
- Parents' divorce & separation, family break-up
- Juvenile Fiction
- Children's 9-12 - Literature - Classics / Contemporary
- Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)
- Action & Adventure
- Classics
- Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure
- Action & Adventure - General
- Family - Marriage & Divorce
- Divorce
- Fiction
- Survival
- Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.