Hatchet (Paperback)

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This award-winning contemporary classic is the survival story with which all others are compared--and a page-turning, heart-stopping adventure, recipient of the Newbery Honor. Hatchet has also been nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson, haunted by his secret knowledge of his mother's infidelity, is traveling by single-engine plane to visit his father for the first time since the divorce. When the plane crashes, killing the pilot, the sole survivor is Brian. He is alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but his clothing, a tattered windbreaker, and the hatchet his mother had given him as a present. At first consumed by despair and self-pity, Brian slowly learns survival skills--how to make a shelter for himself, how to hunt and fish and forage for food, how to make a fire--and even finds the courage to start over from scratch when a tornado ravages his campsite. When Brian is finally rescued after fifty-four days in the wild, he emerges from his ordeal with new patience and maturity, and a greater understanding of himself and his parents.

Publishers Weekly,This Newbery Honor book is a dramatic, heart-stopping story of a boy who, following a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness, must learn to survive with only a hatchet and his own wits. Ages 12-up. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Book format

Paperback

Fiction/nonfiction

Fiction

Genre

Literature & Fiction

Publication date

December, 2006

Pages

192

Reading level

Grade 5

Age range

10 - 14 Years

Subgenre

Action & Adventure

Series title

No Series

Number in series

Edition

Edition 1

Publisher

Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

Original languages

English

Language

English

Awards won

Newbery Honor

Is collectible

Occasion

Everyday

Character

Brian Robeson

Binding type

Perfect Binding

Recording time

0 min

Retail packaging

Single Piece

Assembled product dimensions (l x w x h)

7.63 x 5.13 x 0.60 in

Assembled product weight

0.28 oz

Bisac subject heading

Juvenile Fiction

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