the main character of this story is a boy living in new york city, but when he was about to travel to the west and visited his father, his plane pilot got a heart attack and the plane crashed into a lake. he first found a hard time living in the wood while starving and hurting with his city mind. but soon he got used to the wild and found ways to catch fish, make fire, catch birds, find berries, and get many more skills. most of all, his mind changed, now he knew that how important is food and everything is a chance for living. after he got rescued by a pilot who heard the boy's help message on accident. many newspapers reported about his camp and his plane, and the dead pilot's body was rediscovered. later, everything just went back to normal.
the book name is the hatchet which is an important gift given by the boy’s mom that helped him survive in the wild. the hatchet made fire and crack open the fallen plane for the survival pack, sometime it can also help him to scale away and kill the unwanted creatures.