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.