Hatchet
by:Gary Paulsen
summary
Brian Robeson a thirteen year old boy from New York is the only one in a small plane he's headed to spend the summer with his dad. The pilot suffers a heart attack and dies He has enough control of the plane to crash it in the lake and he has to survive on a island on his own with a hatchet his mom gave him. he also has to face many obstacles like a tornado and wild animals.
Gary Paulsen
He was born on May,17,1939 he wasn't a dedicated student but he developed a passion for books at a early age. He would spend hours in his basement reading one book after another. When he was 14 he ran away and traveled with a carnival because he had a bad home life he was very poor and his parents were drinkers
Genre
-Fiction
-Children literature
Other books by Gary
-The river
-Tracker
-Guts
-The rifle