Gary Paulsen

During a trip to Uncle Woody's Santa Fe cattle ranch, Dunc and Amos overhear a plot to do Woody in, and the two young sleuths gear up to save the ranch. Original.

Hatchet is a 1987 Newbery Honor-winning young-adult wilderness survival novel written by Gary Paulsen. It is the first novel of five in the Hatchet series.

Readers met the comical Kevin in Liar, Liar and Flat Broke. Kevin gets serious about Tina Zabinski, the Most Beautiful Girl in the World. Finally, finally, he's worked up his courage—he's going to ask her out. Or will his trademark scheming get in his way?