~ Trade Paperback

~ Winner of the Golden Archer Award - 1989, Sequoyah Award for YA - 1990, William Allen White Children's Book Award - 1991, Soaring Eagle Award - 1997, and more!

Brian's Saga: Hatchet

Hatchet is a story about a boy struggling to survive after his plane crashes in a remote Canadian forest.  As Brian strives to find ways to survive, he learns and adapts to the new environment.  Facing many physical challenges he also ponders his family situation and is forced to work through his emotions surrounding his parents divorce.  

A story of survival and of transformation, Hatchet is a riveting novel that illustrates important lessons about perseverance, death, survival, divorce, anger, etc., and has sparked many a reader's interest in venturing into the wild.