![]() He discovers how to make fire with the hatchet, and eats whatever food he can find, from rabbits and ruffed grouse – which he nicknames “foolbirds” – to turtle eggs, fish and berries. ![]() Throughout the summer, Brian learns how to survive on his own in the vast wilderness, with nothing but his windbreaker and a hatchet-a gift his mother gave him shortly before his plane departed. Brian tries to land the plane, but ends up crash-landing into a lake, in the middle of a vast forest. As he travels from Hampton on a single-engine Cessna bush plane to visit his father in the oil fields of Northern Canada for the summer, the pilot suddenly suffers a massive heart attack and dies. Plotīrian Robeson is the thirteen-year-old son of divorced parents. Other novels in the series include The River (1991), Brian's Winter (1996), Brian's Return (1999) and Brian's Hunt (2003). ![]() It is the first novel of five in the Hatchet series. Hatchet is a 1986 Newbery Honor-winning young-adult wilderness survival novel written by American writer Gary Paulsen. ![]()
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