Read Full Post ». I feel fortunate to live just a couple hours away from a jewel of a National Park. Then, we arrived home to surprise. Follow the River hits the shelves on August 20 th but you can preorder it now. From the Jacket Flap: When Billy and his dad are injured, Tom summons the courage to get back on the water to save them. This time, he must travel in a rickety old homemade canoe through the Alaska wilderness to get help.
Are his skills enough to fight them off or will his journey be cut short and Billy and his father left stranded? Forthcoming is Follow the River Move Books Please stop by and say hi if you are making the First Friday rounds in Fairbanks. No matter what. This is a brilliant read. Wonderful well written plot and story line that had me engaged from the start. Love the well fleshed out characters and found them believable. Great suspense and found myself second guessing every thought I had continuously.
Can't wait to read what the author brings out next. Recommend reading. This is my own honest voluntary review. The synopsis had me all excited. It seemed it would be a great read with people from so many diverse backgrounds stuck and trying to survive. I enjoyed some parts like the ending, in the middle when they have honest conversations, the scenes where they actually go out and try to survive, and the build-up to what would happen or who would actually survive.
Laurie Z, Reviewer. Being a skier, I enjoyed the book. At least the ending was. They endured so many challenges in the mountains. Edel Weiss V, Reviewer. The characters were written well. I love how the characters are so diverse! The story was easy to follow and was weaved nicely. I also listen to the audio book and the narrator did an amazing job in telling the story. She really belted out some emotions here and there!
Jackie R, Reviewer. This YA survival thriller had me on the edge of my seat the entire time I was reading it. I can see why it has won so many awards. Fair warning if you read it before a ski trip- you might want to wait until you get back!
Six teens and a dog go on a ski weekend but how many of them will return? When Sam, her brother and 4 friends go on a ski weekend, the last thing they expect is to crash in a snowbank with little food and no cell phone reception. What would you do to survive? Complicit 09 Aug Bone Deep 22 Feb The Urge 18 Jan Into Green 04 Jan Nine Lives 15 Mar Stalker Stalked 17 Sep The World According to Color 12 Apr Deep Sniff 14 Sep Architects of an American Landscape 25 Jan Love, Lists, and Fancy Ships 23 Nov Funny Farm 22 Feb Desperate to find his father, Tom doesn't know how long he can survive and he must put his skills to the test as he fights to reach safety.
Will Tom make it through a wilderness full of bears and other dangers? Media Surviving Bear Island. You come out here to kayak, your muscles work overtime, and you expect rain. We'd been gone for two and a half weeks and still had sixty miles to paddle to get to Whittier and then a four hundred mile drive north to Fairbanks.
I just wanted to get home. His paddle was lying across his cockpit as he wrestled with his raincoat and life vest. Hopefully that's the last we've seen of those sea lions. I nodded, turned back around and waited.
Mom should've been with us. Everything was better when Mom was around. I scanned the water. No sign of the sea lions. And the waves seemed to be calming down. I yanked my hood off and stretched my neck. Giant green waves tipped with white surrounded me. I jumped and twisted.
Another wave slapped my face and I spit more salt water. I grabbed at a slippery log but another wave ripped it from my grip. Then I angled toward shore.
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