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.

1020L Lexile.|||1020L Lexile|||Ages 12 up.|||juvenile

Gary Paulsen.

"A Richard Jackson book"--Title page.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.7 7 367.

Newbery Honor book, 1988.