Will Hobbs
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After fourteen-year-old Andy slips away from his kayaking group to visit the wilderness site of his archaeologist father's death, a storm strands him on Admiralty Island, Alaska, where he manages to survive, encounters unexpected animal and human inhabitants, and looks for traces of the earliest prehistoric immigrants to America.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old half-Inuit Nick and his white brother, Ryan, meet and share an adventure on the Firth River in the Canadian Arctic, facing white water, wild animals, and fierce weather as Ryan documents the effects of climate change on caribou for National Geographic magazine.
3) Ghost canoe
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Nathan, fishing with the Makah in the Pacific Northwest, finds himself holding a vital clue when a mysterious stranger comes to town looking for Spanish treasure.
4) Far North
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
After the destruction of their floatplane, sixteen-year-old Gabe and his Dene friend, Raymond, struggle to survive a winter in the wilderness of the Northwest Territories.
7) The maze
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The acclaimed author of seven ALA Best Books for Young Adults, Will Hobbs pens a spellbinding true-to-life adventure. With nothing but dogged determination, 15year-old Victor leaves his Mexican village to illegally enter the U.S. and help his starving family. Soon he must outwit gangs, drug-runners, and border agents as he endures shivering nights, blistering days, and gnawing hunger. But can his longing for the beckoning opportunity of El Norte carry...
9) Beardream
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2000, c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Short Tail climbs the mountain to find the Great Bear, he tires, falls asleep, and slips into a dream in which the Great One reveals a marvelous secret.
10) Downriver
Author
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Jessie and the other rebellious teenage members of a wilderness survival school team abandon their adult leader, hijack his boats, and try to run the dangerous white water at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.