After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
Fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is heading west on the Oregon Trail with his family by wagon train. Whenhe receives a rifle for his birthday, he is thrilled. Francis lags behind to practice shooting and is captured by Pawnees.
A teenager left on his own travels west in a kit car he built himself, and along the way picks up two Vietnam veterans, who take him on an eye-opening journey.
A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels at odds with aspects of modern life takes a 1400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own song of himself.
