Hatchet

In Hatchet Brian Robeson is stranded alone in the canadien wilderness. While traveling in a single engined Cessna to visit his father —whom his mother has just divorced as a result of an affair that Brian knows about but his father does not, and who is working in the Canadian oil fields, the pilot suffers a fatal heart attack, and Brian must crash land the plane. The plane sinks in a remote lake in the Canadian Woods.
Brian figures out how to make fire and forces himself to eat whatever food he can find. He eventually becomes quite a craftsman, crafting a bow and a. During the story he struggles with memories of home, and the bittersweet memory of his mother, for if she had not had an extra lover, there would not have been a divorce or the plane crash to follow.
Brian is saved when a tornado hits the woods, tossing the plane wreckage towards the surface. Brian crafts a raft from raw materials to get to the plane. When Brian was working his way into the plane, he drops his hatchet in the water which makes him realize how important the hatchet was to him. After diving numerous times he retrieves the hatchet, and was able to successfully locate the survival pack containing a transmitter, packs of food, and a gun. Brian unknowingly activates the transmitter thinking it was broken, and is rescued by a fur trader who comes in a water plane.

Brian is a thirteen year old boy who is adventurous and trapped in the Canadian wilderness.

I used visualization and determning the importance when reading this book.

This book was written by gary paulsen. Some other books he wrote include Brians Winter, Dogsong, and Brians Hunt.