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Never Say Die
By HOBBS, Will
- ISBN
- 978-0-06-170878-7 978-0-06-170879-4 978-0-06-222384-5
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Harper
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2013 | Grades 5-up
Gr 5–7—Fifteen-year-old Inuit hunter Nick Thrasher, fresh off a terrifying encounter with a strange bear that seemed half polar/half grizzly, receives a letter from the half brother he has never met. Ryan invites Nick to join him on a photographic journey for National Geographic, rafting down the remote Firth River far above the Arctic Circle. Initially against the idea, Nick finally decides to go at the urging of his much-beloved grandfather, Jonah, who...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on February 1, 2013
Set in the Yukon Territory hard by the Beaufort Sea, Hobbs's latest turbocharged wilderness survival story has heavy weather, savage river waters, treacherous trails, and, as chief antagonist, a "grolar bear." Just as exciting (and real) as the Turkish war dog of Hobbs's Go Big or Go Home (rev. 5/08), the polar bear-grizzly hybrid attacks our hero Nick in the first chapter and returns in the last for a spectacular confrontation. In between, Nick and his adult half-brother Ryan travel by bush...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
