The Maze, Will Hobbs
The Maze, Will Hobbs
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The Maze

Author: Will Hobbs

Narrator: Ed Sala

Unabridged: 5 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/01/2013


Synopsis

IRA/CBC Teachers' Choice
Junior Library Guild Selection
ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults
American Bookseller Pick of the Lists
ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults
IRA/CBC Young Adults’ Choice

Just fourteen, Rick Walder is alone, on the run, and desperate. Stowing away in the back of a truck, he suddenly finds himself at a dead end, out in the middle of nowhere. The Maze. In this surreal landscape of stark redrock spires and deep sandstone canyons, Rick stumbles into the remote camp of Lon Perigrino, a bird biologist who is releasing fledgling California condors back into the wild. Intrigued by the endangered condors and the strange bearded man dedicated to saving them, Rick decides to stay on. When two men with a vicious dog drive up in a battered old Humvee, Rick discovers that Lon and his birds are in grave danger.

Will he be able to save them?

In a heart-stopping adventure infused with the spirit of the Icarus myth and a boy's dreams of flight, Will Hobbs brings readers a unique tale of identity, personal growth, and friendship.

About Will Hobbs

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jonathan on February 08, 2024

Troubled teen bonds with an unlikely older scientist with a backdrop of condors and paragliding. Cool to see the focus on condors, a usually vilified bird, and learned a bunch about paragliding. Fun read!......more

Goodreads review by Lorraine on January 22, 2015

"Who is Rick Walker?" the judge intoned. . . Rick knew he wasn't dangerous to anybody, if that was what the judge was getting at. Throwing rocks at a stop sign wouldn't suggest that he was, would it?  He'd never hurt anybody. "For violating the express conditions of your probation, six months in Blue......more

Goodreads review by Ivan on April 07, 2015

As a young boy, Rick bounced around from foster house to foster house. Could you imagine being a young boy with no parents? He never really knew where he belonged so he acted out about his situation. His behavior landed him a spot at the Blue Canyon Youth Detention Center. His 6 month sentence there......more

Goodreads review by Brandy on May 25, 2021

Good, but not my favorite. I taught this with a group of students and we just finished. They enjoyed the overall story and the condors were an added surprising bonus - but slogging through all of the mechanical jargon of hang gliding and the unfamiliar topographical vocabulary was a chore for them.......more

Goodreads review by James on December 07, 2023

This is a great story of Rick who is a 14-year-old orphan who needs to get himself out of trouble with the law. Luck brings him into the life of natural scientist named Lon Perigrino who is studying California Condors and helping a population of the birds to be established in the Maze in Southern Ut......more