Gary Paulsen, an award-winning writer for the books Dogsong, Hatchet, and The Winter Room. But my FAVORITE book is called hatchet. The main character is a 13-year-old boy whose name is Brian. His parents are also divorced. He survives a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness on the route to visit his father and must use the hatchet his mother once gave him to stay alive. Brain struggles to find food but miraculously manages to find some meals like berries, fish, and birds, all with the help of his trusty hatchet. Now it all just comes down to the “, secret.”