In recent years, the Young Adult genre has both expanded and matured. Thorndike Press offers this series to make the best of the Young Adult genre available to young readers in Large Print.Two years ago, Brian Robeson survived alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days with nothing but a small hatchet. Now the government wants him to go back, accompanied by government psychologist Derek Holtzer, so that astronauts and the military can learn the survival techniques that kept him alive. But during a freak storm, Derek is hit ...
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In recent years, the Young Adult genre has both expanded and matured. Thorndike Press offers this series to make the best of the Young Adult genre available to young readers in Large Print.Two years ago, Brian Robeson survived alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days with nothing but a small hatchet. Now the government wants him to go back, accompanied by government psychologist Derek Holtzer, so that astronauts and the military can learn the survival techniques that kept him alive. But during a freak storm, Derek is hit by lightning and falls into a coma. Their radio transmitter is dead. Brian's only hope is to build a raft and try to transport Derek a hundred miles down the river to a trading post . . .
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