- Divorce, plane crash, survival, Canada, fiction
Brian Robison, a teenage boy struggling through his parents divorce, is flying up north to stay with his dad for the summer. However, his plane crashes and he is forced to survive the Canadian wilderness. Now living in a world completely opposite of his own, he is now able to discover himself in this forsaken and misunderstood beautiful world. The story is continued in "The River" "Brian's Winter" "Brian's Return" and "The Hunt"
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and contemporary.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Gary Paulsen
- First published
- March 1, 2003
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, Houghton Mifflin School, Aladdin
- Editions
- 81
- Language
- Chinese, Spanish, German, English
- ISBN
- 9780812471267
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“BRIAN ROBESON stared out the window of the small plane at the endless green northern wilderness below.”
Gary James Paulsen (May 17, 1939 – October 13, 2021) was an American writer of children's and young adult fiction, best known for coming of age stories about the wilderness. He was the author of more than 200 books and wrote more than 200 magazine articles and short stories, and several plays, all primarily for teenagers. He won the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 1997 for his lifetime contribution in writing for teens.[ **Source**: [Gary Paulsen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Paulsen) on Wikipedia
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