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38 reviews
Will Hobbs

HarperTrophy, 1999

I'm amazed over The Maze!
Will Hobbs does and excellent job in writing the book, The Maze. He fully explains everything and is very detailed. It is an extremely interesting adventure story with a superb storyline. The fiction in this book makes you think it actually happened. Overall, I think it was one of the best books that I have read since I learned to read! It could easily be yours too. In this book, a 14 year old ...

Far North

50 reviews
Will Hobbs

HarperTeen, 2004

Great Read!!!
I bought this book to use in a literature unit with two 8th-grade homeschoolers, one an avid reader, and the other a very reluctant reader. The book was a hit with both! The reluctant reader even started reading ahead on his own because he wanted to find out how the story turned out. The story stimulated some great discussions on literary technique (foreshadowing, cliffhangers), social and ...

Crossing the Wire

5 reviews
Will Hobbs

HarperTrophy, 2007

Loved it
As an author, I was freaking out about how timely this book was, given all the talk of illegal immigration, etc. Then I read it, and was even more impressed. This is a terrific book, far more interesting than a lot of news stories I've read on the topic, from a master of the genre. I fear it won't get the attention it deserves, solely because it's a YA book.

Beardance (Sequel to Bearstone)
Will Hobbs

Recorded Books LLC, 1996

Exploring the Weminuche Wilderness, Cloyd Atcitty finds a pair of orphaned grizzly cubs. He must draw on his courage, determination, and Ute Indian heritage to teach them how to live in the wild. With winter approaching and food growing scarce, Cloyd must not only ensure the survival of the bears, but return to civilization before starvation and cold kill him.

Downriver

132 reviews
Will Hobbs

Recorded Books, 1997

Great book for reluctant readers
Outdoor action, adventure, thrills - reluctant readers will really like this book. Jesse and her new friends have decided to ditch the outdoor adventure trip they signed up for and strike out on their own. Helicopters and searchers are looking for the renegade group everywhere. Meanwhile, serious problems start to develop within the group. Will they make it back to safety or have their ...

Jason's Gold

43 reviews
Will Hobbs

HarperTrophy, 2000

Klondike is full of suspense and adventure
Jason's Gold is about Jason's search to strike it rich in the Klondike. This book teaches kids great values and is full of adventure and excitement that will keep you holding the book for hours. I recommend it to all kids from ages 9-12. It is very easy to read and is tons of fun to read.

Wild Man Island

26 reviews
Will Hobbs

Recorded Books, 2002

great adventure, and educational in the bargain
I read this book intending only to skim it. I could not put it down. The plotting is tight and the writing so descriptive that I actually felt like I was there. I could see, hear and smell the environment like I was sitting in its midst. I felt Andy's fear in the many situations that pitted his strength and intelligence against implacable, impersonal nature, his compassion for the dog and the ...

Bearstone
Will Hobbs

Recorded Books, 1989

Growing up without parents and without schooling, fourteen-year-old Cloyd is trouble - trouble to himself and everyone else. Won the IRA Teachers Choice Book and a Notable Children's Trade Book in teh field of Social Studies. It also won the Mountain & Plains Booksellers Association Children's Book Award.

Go Big or Go Home

2 reviews
Will Hobbs

HarperCollins, 2008

go big or go home
Go Big Or Go Home In the Black Hills of South Dakota one dark summer night, a meteor shower started. Little balls of fire crashed down to earth with super sonic speed. Brady heard a big boom coming from the house and he ran back to find a hole in his roof. He finds a meteorite on the floor of his bedroom. While days go by, strange and weird thing start happening to Brady. He gets amazing ...

River Thunder

1 review
Will Hobbs

Recorded Books Inc, 1998

Entertaining for all ages
I checked River Thunder out from the library, not realizing it was a "young adult" book. Despite being twenty years older than the intended audience, I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this book. River Thunder follows the summer adventure camp follies of Jessie who is struggling to get along with her father. She finds herself in the woods of Colorado with a group of semi-delinquents sent to ...

River Thunder

18 reviews
Will Hobbs

Laurel Leaf, 1999

Take a Trip With River Thunder
"They are calling it a flood, some of the highest water anyone's ever seen." This was a quote at a very on the edge of your set. They were just about to go down the river when they hired one of the other groups talking about the river level. River thunder is a book that will keep you on the edge of your set. There are 6 teenage kids that are going down the Grand Canyon. Jessie, Troy, Adam, Star, ...

Jackie's Wild Seattle

20 reviews
Will Hobbs

HarperTrophy, 2004

Jackie's wild seattle book review by:Taylor
Book Review The book Jackie's Wild Seattle is exciting and propelling. All though the story has some parts that get off subject, the characters are very well thought up. Each character faces a disadvantage or problem. Shannon the main character is always worrying about her parents and the danger they're in. Cody, her brother is obsessed with disasters and is afraid he might have caused the ...

The Big Wander

4 reviews
Will Hobbs

Aladdin, 2004

A great way to spend time with a youngster!
The Big Wander is a humorous, thoughtful trip through the American southwest amidst the tumultuous 60's. If that era wasn't enough to fuel the author's creative palette, our hero, Clay, is euphorically approaching adolescent replete with starry eyed infatuation and an all-to-well-remembered awkwardness in his approach to young ladies. The novel sets out as an summer adventure ("The Wander") for ...

Crossing the Wire [Audiobook] [Cd]
Will Hobbs, 2006

Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores journeys north in a desperate attempt to cross the Arizona border and find work in the United States to support his family in central Mexico.

Beardance

8 reviews
Will Hobbs

Aladdin, 2004

BearDance
If you like the outdoors, then you will love Beardance. The book takes place in the wilderness of Colorado. The Weminuche Wilderness. When I was reading this book, I was sad, fascinated and surprised. The book had some gory parts in it, that is what made it surprising. Some parts in the book made me fill like I was actually there in the wild with the grizzly bears. The characters remind me ...

Kokopelli's Flute

31 reviews
Will Hobbs

Aladdin, 2005

7th grade book report
In the moonlight of a total eclipse, young Tepary Jones's first lunar eclipse, a tragedy occurred. The last untouched Indian site was being robbed of priceless pottery. Two pothunters had come to rob the picture house. Though suspicious, Tep undertakes to run them off. The superstitious pothunters are easily driven away. After an owl hoot, Tep lit a tumbleweed and dropped it over the cliff, ...

Down the Yukon

8 reviews
Will Hobbs

HarperTrophy, 2002

Philly's Book Review
Jason's brother Ethan loses the family mill in a poker bet. Jason and his friend Jamie decided they need to enter the Great race to get the mill back. First prize in the race is twenty-thousand dollars. Donner, the man Ethan lose the bet to, said he would sell the mill back too him for three thousand dollars. After days on the Yukon Jason and Jamie get their canoe stuck on a log. After hours of ...

Bearstone

21 reviews
Will Hobbs

Aladdin, 2004

At the edge of civilization is the blue bear
A half Ute , half Navajo is wild and alone. School has failed and his relatives are failing him. He just in time finds an old man to father him. It is a rough story and the boy who calls himself lone bear because of a blue stone he found in an burial cave of the ancient ones. A story or redemption and friendship that grows to love. Very well written and with mining and hunting, besides ...

Ghost Canoe (Avon Camelot Books)

19 reviews
Will Hobbs

HarperTrophy, 1998

Ghost Canoe
Ghost Canoe is about a fourteen-year-old boy named Nathan MacAllister. After the ship named the Burnaby sunk, no one thought there were any survivors, though there were footprints, stolen goods, and a murdered captain. Nathan thought otherwise. After a series of events, he realizes that the murderer was actually in the village and that a sole survivor existed. At the end of the book, Kane, the ...

Leaving Protection

5 reviews
Will Hobbs

HarperTrophy, 2005

What a well thought out book!
Having fished in Alaska, I found Mr. Hobbs ability to take me back onto a boat extraordinary. I really enjoyed this book and recommend it for the adventurous souls in your life. I am an adult, but imagined reading this as a boy and how much I would have liked it then too! Well done Mr. Hobbs, thanks for a great read!

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