Take Me To The River By WILL HOBBS Take Me To the River by Bill Hobbs what a great book. Just like how lately I have done responses about other interesting books like in The Hunger Games,I do a two in one response. That is when i keep adding m...
One of the better YA books that I've read. A boy takes a river trip with his half brother whom he had never met. The brother is a wildlife photographer who wants to get caribou photos and write a piece about climate change in the arctic. Their trip is filled with problems. One of which is a grola...
"Gold!" Jason shouted at the top of his lungs. "Read all about it! Gold discovered in Alaska!" Within hours of hearing the thrilling news, fifteen-year-old Jason Hawthorn jumps a train for Seattle, stow away on a ship bound for the goldfields, and joins thousands of fellow prospectors attempting...
Andy is in a world of trouble.On the last day of a sea kayaking trip in southeast Alaska, fourteen-year-old Andy Galloway paddles away from his group to visit the nearby site where his archaeologist father died trying to solve the mystery of the first Americans. A sudden, violent storm blows Andy...
For many people, illegal immigration is a black and white issue-a wrong or right issue. This book helps readers to understand that it is not so black and white. This issue is not as simple as many would like to believe. The book, which follows the illegal journey of fifteen-year-old Victor Flo...
"Mayday! Landed on river. Engine out. Floating toward the falls."When the engine of their float plane fails during a water landing near the head of Canada's monumental Virginia Falls, what began as a sightseeing detour turns into a survival mission for two high-school students and their elderly c...
Will Hobb's message in Ghost Canoe is to always follow one's instincts. This novel takes place on the rough and rugged shores on an island called Tatoosh off the Washington coast where a ship has a mysterious crashed and murder victim was found from the ship washed up. On a calmer more foreste...
Raised in the island world of southeast Alaska, sixteen-year-old Robbie Daniels jumps at the chance to work as a deckhand on a salmon troller captained by legendary fisherman Tor Torsen. Catching king salmon from dawn till dusk, Robbie is living his dream -- until he discovers his mysterious capt...
The thunder sounded far off but ominous. I wondered if Quinn heard it, but I wasn’t going to ask. Ten minutes later, the lightning strobes were making it easy for me to look at my watch and time the thunder. The storm was about eight miles away. I got up on one elbow. “Hear that, Quinn?” “Fuhgedd...
I kissed her on the cheek, two, three times as she heaved a sob and I recognized, close-up, those few precious freckles on her nose. We held each other. Jamie was trembling and so was I. When she broke away, tears were streaking her eyes. In one hand was a roll of parchment; her free hand searche...
Lon held up the small tracking antenna while tuning in the condor’s frequency on the radio fastened to his belt. He pointed the antenna north, toward the Maze, then rotated it gradually to the east. Four rapid beeps started to come in, then grew stronger and stronger as the antenna pointed straig...
With seventeen days to go I was catching animals hand over fist. I’d picked up a few disposable cameras and was taking pictures of the animals to show my parents. The latest notables were a Canada goose and a river otter. On our way home with the otter, the warning lights on the dash came on. The...