“Without freedom, there is no creation.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

 "Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else have in common." -- Sarah Dessen --

 "Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without." -- Confucius -- 

 "Music is an outburst of the soul." -- Frederick Delius --

 "Music . . . will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you." -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer --

Hatchet

Title: Hatchet

Author: Gary Paulsen

Rating: ★★★★★

Ages: 12 - 18+

    Back Cover Synopsis:

    Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is on his way to visit his father when the single-engine plane in which he is flying crashes. Suddenly, Brian finds himself alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but a tattered Windbreaker and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present - and the dreadful secret that has been tearing him apart since his parents' divorce. But now Brian has no time for anger, self-pity, or despair - it will take all his know-how and determination, and more courage than he knew he possessed, to survive.  

 "Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens." -- Maria Augusta von Trapp --