After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.

Two teenagers are put to the test when the plane taking them to a wilderness boot camp for juvenile offenders crashes into the vast Sierra wilderness. Their pilot, injured and unable to make the dangerous journey, teaches them the ways of his ancient people and to have faith in the spirit of the white wolf as well as themselves. Pamela and Jack are forced to face the dangerous trek alone with only the clothes on their back and the spirit of the white...