12-year-old Donn Fendler Survived Nine Days Lost on Maine’s Katahdin
Gary Paulsen’s book Hatchet, about a kid who survives an airplane crash deep in the woods and has to survive on his own in the wilderness deeply affected thousands of adolescents when the book was published in 1987. Kids everywhere would think about Brian, Hatchet’s quick-witted protagonist, as they set out for backcountry hikes, wondering […]