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Hatchet is the story of one boy's survival between nature and himself. Brian Robeson is 13 years old and trying to cope with his parents' recent divorce. Brian thinks he knows the reason behind his parents divorce, but holds it inside like his own internal punishment. He has seen what he wasn't supposed to see -- his mother and a strange man kissing. Shortly thereafter, his mother demanded a divorce from his father.
When the story opens, Brian is on his way to visit his father in northern Canada. Just prior to boarding a single-engine plane, Brian receives a present from his mother - a hatchet with a leather holder. He takes it from her after she insists that he wear it on his belt. He would never guess how critically important that hatchet would become to his physical, mental, and emotional survival.
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