Survival Skills
Brian realizes he needs this to stay warm and cook.
Fire
This is the specific gift Brian's mother gave him.
A hatchet
This animal breaks into Brians shelter in the middle of the night and sprays him.
A skunk
A heart attack
This was the first thing Brian found to eat.
Gut cherries
To catch fish, Brian realizes he must aim here.
Brian's "secret" involves a man with a car of this color.
White
Brian is attacked by this at the lake, which almost kills him
A moose
Brian uses this part of the plane's tail as a "door".
Brian calls these birds by this name because there are difficult to see.
Fool-birds
Brian creates this to store live fish.
A fish pen (or pond)
Brian changes to a "New Brian" after failing to signal this.
A search plane
This animal enters Brian's shelter which leads him to throw his hatchet at the wall.
A porcupine
The item Brian retrieves from the plane that leads to him being rescued.
Emergency transmitter
Brian uses bark from this tree to start his fire.
Birch bark
This was the "most important rule of survival".
No self-pity
Brian was traveling to see his father in this season.
Summer
Brian encounters this animal while picking raspberries.
A bear
To get out the plane, Brian builds a raft that he calls this.
Brushpile One
"City-boy" items that Brian uses for the string of his bow.
Shoelaces
Brian learned he needed to look with "new eyes" to see the function of this. It becomes his favorite meat.
At the end of the story, Brian chooses not to do this regarding the "secret".
Tell his father
This natural disaster destroys Brian's camp.
A tornado
The pilot's body was eaten by these.
Fish
Brian finds these in the sand after following a snapping turtle's steps.
Turtle eggs