Hatchet (9781442403321) (17 page)

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The text of this book was set in Janson Text

First Aladdin Paperbacks edition October 1996

Revised cover edition, 1999

This Aladdin Paperbacks edition December 2006

The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

Paulsen, Gary.

Hatchet.

Summary: After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.

[1. Survival—Fiction. 2. Divorce—Fiction.]

I. Title.

PZ7.2843Hat.1987 [Fic] 87-6416

ISBN-13: 978-0-689-84092-0 (hc.)

ISBN-10: 0-689-84092-6 (hc.)

ISBN-13: 978-1-4169-3647-3 (pbk.)

ISBN-13: 978-1-4424-0332-1 (ebk.)

ISBN-10: 1-4169-3647-5 (pbk.)

87-6416