Hatchet 紐伯瑞得獎書

十三歲的布萊恩獨自搭機探望父親，卻意外墜機，隻身困在加拿大荒野。他唯一的工具，是母親送給他的斧頭。從恐懼、自責到學會生存，布萊恩用雙手與智慧與大自然搏鬥，也重新找回了勇氣與自我。本書榮獲紐伯瑞榮譽獎，這本現代經典至今仍感動無數讀者。

This award-winning contemporary classic is the survival story with which all others are compared—and a page-turning, heart-stopping adventure, recipient of the Newbery Honor. Hatchet has also been nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson, haunted by his secret knowledge of his mother’s infidelity, is traveling by single-engine plane to visit his father for the first time since the divorce. When the plane crashes, killing the pilot, the sole survivor is Brian. He is alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but his clothing, a tattered windbreaker, and the hatchet his mother had given him as a present.

At first consumed by despair and self-pity, Brian slowly learns survival skills—how to make a shelter for himself, how to hunt and fish and forage for food, how to make a fire—and even finds the courage to start over from scratch when a tornado ravages his campsite. When Brian is finally rescued after fifty-four days in the wild, he emerges from his ordeal with new patience and maturity, and a greater understanding of himself and his parents.