Hand Axe Boy - Growth Pocket 1

Author: Gary Paulsen
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: A global bestseller with over 2 million copies sold! One of the 50 greatest young adult books of the 20th century in the United States! Awarded the Newbery Honor Books in the United States! A survival legend that fooled National Geographic magazine in the U.S.! Gary Paulsen, one of the most popular young adult authors in the U.S., presents his beloved series! A top choice for teenage literature at Taiwan's Eslite Bookstore in 2005! Ranked second in the parent-child shared category at bookstore in 2005.
Brian is 13 years old and is going to spend the summer with his father. But where is his father? His father is working in the remote forests of northern Canada, developing oil fields. How can Brian reach the wilderness he has long dreamed of? One day, an opportunity finally comes—a plane is returning to the oil field, and Brian becomes the only passenger. Yet, who could have imagined that a great misfortune would strike at that moment: the pilot suffers a sudden heart attack and dies, causing the plane to crash deep into the uninhabited forest.
Fortunately, Brian survives, but the dense wilderness is full of danger, and survival becomes a struggle—despair, fear, hunger, a black bear, wolves, and moose. Before boarding the plane, his mother gives him a hatchet. With the hatchet in his hand, can Brian survive? What will he do when the wolves come? What will he do without fire? What will he do without food? Can Brian really survive? If one day, teenagers who grew up eating McDonald's find themselves in a situation like this, what would they do? Do we have enough wilderness survival skills? Can we transform the knowledge from math, physics, chemistry, and other textbooks into survival techniques in the wild?