Never Say Die - Softcover

Hobbs, Will

3.79

1,020 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061708801 ISBN 13: 9780061708800

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2014

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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.

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Review:

"Nonstop survival adventure."--Kirkus Reviews

"Purpose driven survival tale...a plot lit up with extremes of privation and deadly danger."--ALA Booklist

"Turbocharged wilderness survival story."--Horn Book Magazine

"Exciting...The imagery is truly majestic. It will resonate with kids who have a healthy respect for the awesomeness of nature."--School Library Journal

Nonstop survival adventure. --Kirkus Reviews"

Purpose driven survival tale a plot lit up with extremes of privation and deadly danger. --ALA Booklist"

Turbocharged wilderness survival story. --Horn Book Magazine"

Exciting The imagery is truly majestic. It will resonate with kids who have a healthy respect for the awesomeness of nature. --School Library Journal"

From the Back Cover:

A Bear like no other . . .

An accomplished Inuit hunter at fifteen, Nick Thrasher is about to bring home a caribou when he loses the meat to a fearsome creature never before seen in the wild. It's half grizzly, half polar bear. Wildlife experts will soon be calling it a "grolar bear."

Back home in his Arctic village, Nick receives a letter from Ryan Powers, the half brother he has never met. On assignment for National Geographic, Ryan is coming north to photograph migrating caribou, and proposes Nick join him on a raft trip down the remote Firth River. Their adventure is barely underway when both are thrown into the freezing river, under a ceiling of solid ice. With nothing but Nick's knife and the clothes on their backs, Nick and Ryan fight to survive in a world of caribou, wolves, and grizzlies. All the while, the dreaded grolar bear stalks the land.

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