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Reader reviewed by Cheryl

This book is about a boy who is dealing with his parents' recent divorce. He is put on a small plane travelling to the northern Canadian wilderness to start his first visitation with his dad since the divorce. The pilot suddenly has a heart attack and dies while flying the plane. The plane crashes in the middle of nowhere, way off course, in the middle of a lake. The boy narrowly escapes. The rest of the book describes this boy's attempts to survive this wilderness with nothing but a small hatchett his mother had given him as a going away present.

This book is interesting, but the pacing is a little slow for my taste. It really felt like the whole book dragged on and on. Of course, that's probably how the boy felt stranded in the wilderness.

I think this book would definately appeal to many children, especially boys aged 8-12.