I read the book hatchet, a book in a quartet of awesome books. It is about a boy named Brian who gets sent a hatchet by his mother, and he gets on a plane to visit his dad, but the plane crashes and he is left to survive for himself. It is by Gary Paulsen, I recently read it on the trip to the CMOG. So the rest of the story is this:
When he first crashes, he doesn't know right from left of the wild. He keeps on thinking, in rhythm of the birds, "City boy, City boy, City boy". He finds a small ledge and builds a shelter with bamboo, and he also finds berries, that help him survive the first two nights. He gets invaded the third, with a hedgehog, and after throwing the hatchet he finds out that steel + stone = fire, something that would save him many times in the future. He then has a piece of wood that he makes into a fish spear. He also makes a bow and arrows, and gets a fish, and he makes a fish pond so he can store fish. He then has a tornado, which brings up the tail of the plane, Brian makes a raft from a few broken off tree tops to get to the plane.
When Brian is cutting his way into the tail of the plane, he drops his
hatchet in the lake and dives in to get it. Once inside the plane, Brian
finds a survival pack that includes additional food and an emergency
transmitter, and a .22 rifle.
Back on shore, Brian activates the transmitter, but not knowing how to
use it, he thinks it is broken and throws it aside. However, Brian is
later discovered by a fur trader who received the transmitter's signal. How nice, a happy ending!
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