5 A

The 5 A Class have been so excited to listen to the weekly adventures of Brian Robeson who is surviving in the wildreness alone.

Hatchet is a 1987  Honor-winning Hatchet is a 1987 Newbery Honor-winning young-adult wilderness survival novel written by Gary Paulsen. It is the first novel of five in the Hatchet series. wilderness novel written by Gary Paulsen It is the first novel of five in the Hatchet series.

Brian Robeson is a thirteen-year-old son of divorced parents. As he travels on a Cessna 406 bush plane to visit his father in the oilfields in northern Canada for the summer, the pilot suffers a massive heart attack and dies. Brian tries to land the plane, but ends up crash-landing into a lake in the forest. He must learn to survive on his own with nothing but his hatchet—a gift his mother gave him shortly before his plane departed.