

Far North
Author: Will Hobbs
Narrator: Johnny Heller
Unabridged: 6 hr 14 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 01/18/2013
Categories: Children's Fiction, Action & Adventure Stories
Author: Will Hobbs
Narrator: Johnny Heller
Unabridged: 6 hr 14 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 01/18/2013
Categories: Children's Fiction, Action & Adventure Stories
Will Hobbs is the author of many outdoor adventure novels for upper elementary, middle school, and young adult readers, as well as a few picture book stories. Several of his novels have been named Best Books for Young Adults by the American Library Association, and Ghost Canoe, his first mystery, won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Mystery. The ALA’s list of the 100 Best Young Adult Books of the Twentieth Century includes two of Will’s titles: Far North and Downriver. A graduate of Stanford University and a former reading and language arts teacher, he lives with his wife in Durango, Colorado.
I'm going back to teaching 6th grade in the fall and I'm trying to find some good novels to integrate with the social studies curriculum of Canada & Latin America. Usually I rely on Gary Paulsen's, "Hatchet", for a setting in Canada. "Far North" was much better and more specific with regard to the N......more
Knowing that winter is just around the corner, Gabe Rogers and Raymond Providence must learn what it takes to survive in the wilderness. This all happens after their plane engine fails to start on a river and they are trapped there. The pilot of the plane is the only person that is unable to get ou......more
A pretty easy-to-read winter survival story. There were definitely some interesting parts that kept me engaged, but most of the book was rather cliche and unrealistic for what I imagine a winter-survival situation would actually be like. All in all, not a bad book and definitely worth giving a go.......more
Far North by Will Hobbs Plot Summary Gabe Rogers, a teenage boy from Texas, flew up to the Northwest Territories because his Dad wanted him to experience the deep cold. His father works on the oil rigs, and he wanted Gabe to live in the NWT for a year and go to school and visit him. After a few we......more
I actually read this one in the 6th grade, shout out to Mrs Blake from Bloomfield middle This was a quick, easy read that I actually enjoyed more as an adult than I did back in middle school when I first read it. With a different perspective on life now, the story felt a bit more predictable than I......more