Never Say Die Contributor(s): Hobbs, Will (Author) |
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ISBN: 006170878X ISBN-13: 9780061708787 Publisher: HarperCollins OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure - Survival Stories - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - Canada - Native Canadian - Juvenile Fiction | Science & Nature - Environment |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2011053289 |
Lexile Measure: 770 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.8" W x 8.4" (0.70 lbs) 224 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Arctic/Antarctic - Cultural Region - Canadian - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 159422 Reading Level: 5.2 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 7.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In this fast-paced adventure story set in the Canadian arctic, fifteen-year-old Inuit hunter Nick Thrasher comes face-to-face with a fearsome creature on a routine caribou hunt gone wrong. Part grizzly, part polar bear, this environmental mutant has been pegged the "grolar bear" by wildlife experts. Nick may have escaped this time, but it won't be his last encounter. Then Nick's estranged half-brother, Ryan, offers to take him on a rafting trip down a remote part of the Firth River. But when disaster strikes, the two narrowly evade death. They're left stranded without supplies--and then the grolar bear appears. Will Hobbs brings his singular style to this suspenseful story about two brothers fighting for survival against the unpredictable--and sometimes deadly--whims of nature. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hobbs, Will: - Will Hobbs is the award-winning author of nineteen novels, including Far North, Crossing the Wire, and Take Me to the River. Never Say Die began with the author's eleven-day raft trip in 2003 down the Firth River on the north slope of Canada's Yukon Territory. Ever since, Will has been closely following what scientists and Native hunters are reporting about climate change in the Arctic. When the first grolar bear turned up in the Canadian Arctic, he began to imagine one in a story set on the Firth River. A graduate of Stanford University, Will lives with his wife, Jean, in Durango, Colorado. |