Brian Robeson is traveling as a passenger in a single-engine plane to visit his father in Canada. At seven thousand feet in the air, the pilot dies from a massive heart attack, leaving Brian no choice but to take the controls and land the plane in the wilderness where he will have to learn to survive alone.
Enjoy our presentation of Hatchet by Gary Paulsen and published by Simon and Schuster. Brian Robeson is traveling as a passenger in a single-engine plane to visit his father in Canada. At seven thousand feet in the air, the pilot dies from a massive heart attack, leaving Brian no choice but to take the controls and land the plane in the wilderness where he will have to learn to survive alone.
Hatchet is a recipient of the John Newbery medal and the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book award.
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