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Simply awful. Mostly due to repetitive phrases. I like survival stories—but not this. A kid saves a plane from wrecking and tramps around in the wilderness with a hatchet while persevering about his parents�� divorce. Heck, the Box Car Children is a more realistic—and entertaining—survival story. The writing is geared for a child, but at times it uses specialized language like "banking a fire." Maybe Boy Scout readers know what that means—but not your average kid. And ugh, the repetition of “the divorce�� ... “The Secret.�� I know I must be deeply flawed in some fundamental way to see the depiction of a child’s fear as merely mawkish, manipulative, sentimentality spooned out by the author. But that’s me.