Reading Level: 5.7 Interest Level: 5-9 Accelerated Reader: reading level: 5.7 / points: 7.0 / quiz: 367 / Reading Counts!: reading level:6.3 / points:10.0 / quiz:Q05030 Lexile: 1020L
This award-winning contemporary classic is the survival story with which
all others are compared—and a page-turning, heart-stopping adventure,
recipient of the Newbery Honor.
Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson
is on his way to visit his father when the single-engine plane in which
he is flying crashes. Suddenly, Brian finds himself alone in the
Canadian wilderness with nothing but a tattered Windbreaker and the
hatchet his mother gave him as a present—and the dreadful secret that
has been tearing him apart since his parent’s divorce. But now Brian has
no time for anger, self pity, or despair—it will take all his know-how
and determination, and more courage than he knew he possessed, to
survive.