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Downriver by Will Hobbs is a compelling suspense novel filled with bravery, treacher, and heart-stopping adventure. Jessie has been sent to a nine-week wilderness program run by a Vietnam veteran with a reputation for straightening out incorrigible youths. She falls in line with the renegades of the program and leaves the others to find herself and the others in real danger.
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Will Hobbs is the award-winning author of several novels, including the Avon titles Bearstone, Kokopelli's Flute, and Far North, and the American Library Association has recognized four of Will's novels as Best Books for Young Adults. His novel Downriver was chosen as one of the ALA's 100 Best of the Best Books of the past 25 years. Winner of the California Young Reader Medal, Downriver was an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists. Downriver has been nominated for state awards in Texas, Utah, California, Colorado, Nebraska, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington. Hobbs lived in many places during his youth, including Alaska, Texas and California. He and his wife, Jean, now live in the mountains outside of Durango, Colorado. Downriver and River Thunder draw heavily on Hobbs' own experience rafting down the Colorado and also demonstrate his tremendous love of and respect for nature.
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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.
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- PublisherAtheneum Books for Young Readers
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0689316909
- ISBN 13 9780689316906
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages204
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