1. Imagine that you are 13 years old stranded in the middle of nowhere with no food, no water, and no way home. This is what happens to Brian Robeson when he is traveling by plane to spend the summer with his father. It all starts with a DIVORCE!!! And something the Judge called VISITATION.

2. The Judge had ordered Brian to spend the school year with his mother and the summers with his father. On his way to visit his father in Canada is where Brian's life changing adventure begins. 3. What happens next could have never been imagined by Brian or his parents. In that small single engine bush plane Brians life all but ends. The pilot suddenly has a heart attack and dies leaving Brian to fly the plane. Scared and now alone the plane crashes. Miraculously Brian survives!! BUT FOR HOW LONG!!! 4. Can you imagine being all alone in the wilderness with nothing but a hatchet!!! 5. Hurt! No food! No water! No shelter! ALONE AND SCARED!!!! 6. Can Brian survive with nothing but the Hatchet his mother gave him as a gift and his will to live? Will it be enough? 7. These are only a few of the obstacles Brian must face when the plane he is traveling in goes down. 8. Can Brian survive long enough to be rescued? Or will the Canadian wilderness claim another life!! 9. The days turn into weeks! The weeks turn into months! As Brian tries to survive. 10. Bears! Killer mosquitoes! Poison berries! An adventure no 13 year old should ever experience. He learns to understand wildlife, nature, and human instinct and comes to realize that POSITIVITY is the KEY to survival!!!!!! 11. Through all of this Brian also struggles with his parents divorce and the fact that he possesses a SCERET about his mother he has yet to reveal to his father. 12. Will Brain be able to survive on his own? Will he ever be rescued? Find out in Hatchet I PROMISE you will be on the edge of your seat!