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Hatchet tells the story of Brian Robeson a thirteen-year old boy going to visit his father for the summer in the oil-fields of of the Northern-Canadian wilderness. When the pilot of his tiny plane suffers a heart-attack enroute, Brian crash lands and spends the ensuing 54-days learning lessons about survival and personal resilience. This book was a Newbery medal winner from around the time I was in elementary school.

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The book reminds me of Starship Troopers insofar as it preaches pull yourself up by your bootstraps kind of self-reliance that I’m conflicted about.

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