Hatchet /
Gary Paulsen.
- New York : Puffin, 1988.
- 195 p ; 21 cm.
"Puffin books.".
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After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.