Brian is on his way to Canada to meet his father in a single- engine plane. Suddenly the pilot has a fatal heart attack. Brian tries to land the plane safely, but crashes into a lake in the middle of the Canadian wilderness. Having no way to contact people, Brian endures months of survival. Being alone, scared, and exhausted, Brian tries to survive with a present his mother gave him, a hatchet.
This is a great wilderness survival novel! It expresses the emotional experience of surviving in the wilderness. The ways the author tells the story of Brian’s survival is highly detailed and imaginative. I would recommend this book to people who are nine to fifteen years old. I would rate it a nine out of ten, because it is well written and every chapter is a cliff-hanger.
Reviewed by: HamSand
