"One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them are a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, an injured veteran returning from Afghanistan, a business tycoon, and a free-spirited woman running away from her controlling husband. Halfway across the country, the plane crashes. Edward...

When the plane carrying the Junior Action News Team crash lands in Alaska, the group must try to stay alive in the wilderness.

After having survived alone in the wilderness, Brian finds that he can no longer live in the city but must return to the place where he really belongs.