Gary Paulsen, Lifesaver?
-- Publishers Weekly, 3/20/2007 2:00:00 PM
In case you needed proof that books can save lives—Michael Auberry, the 12-year-old who disappeared from his Boy Scout troop on Saturday in North Carolina, was found alive Tuesday morning in a remote mountain area, and a children’s book may have helped him survive. A few years ago Auberry read Gary Paulsen’s Newbery Honor novel Hatchet, about a boy who is deserted on an island after a plane crash and learns to live off the land, and some of its survival lessons may have sunk in. "I think he’s got some of that book on his mind," his father told CNN.
