Sitting next to the pilot in a single engine pane headed for the Canadian wilderness,where he will visit his father for the first time since his parents ' divorce, thirteen - year- old Brain Robeson is haunted by though plane ts of that divorce and his knwledge of the Secret that caused it. When the plane crashes, Brain is sole survivor.Left with only the clothes on his back and a hatchet his mother gave him as a parting gift, Brain must face the devalasting truth: "Right now I'm all I've got. I have to do something". He must learn to survive
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