Published in 1986, this book follows 13-year-old Brian Robeson into the Canadian wilderness. Here, he must survive with only his wits and a hatchet after the pilot of his plane dies of a heart attack.

“Hatchet,” by Gary Paulsen (Simon & Schuster reissue, 2006) This novel is proof that age categorizations of books are mere suggestions, for this adventure tale is touted for young adults but ...

Little Hatchet is the first of a series of three books, which will all be loosely based on Oakley’s own family. He said he’s wondered what life would’ve been like at an earlier time.

Price Lab School 6th grade students and their University of Northern Iowa partners worked together on animating a scene from the book Hatchet in a UNI computer lab Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010.