Gary Paulsen

Newbery Award-winner Gary Paulsen's best-known book comes to audio in this breathless, heat-gripping drama about a boy pitted against the widerness--with only a hatchet and a will to live. On his way to visit recently divorced father in the Canadian mountains, thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is the only survivor when the single-engine plane crashes. His body battered, his clothes in shreds, Brian must now stay alive in the boundless Candadian wilderness....

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.

The story of a young slave girl and the man who, at great risk to each other, teaches her to read, opening up a whole new world for her.