ALA also named Far North and Downriver to their list of the 100 Best Young Adult Books of the Twentieth Centrury. Seven of his novels, Bearstone, Downriver, The Big Wander, Beardance, Far North, The Maze, and Jason's Gold, were named Best Books for Young Adults by the American Library Association. WILL HOBBS is the author of seventeen novels for upper elementary, middle school and young adult readers, as well as two picture book stories.

The wise old man calls on his deeply rooted knowledge of the land to keep the tiny group alive, leaving the boys to battle nature alone when he dies. After an airplane accident, fifteen-year-old Gabe, his Dene Indian boarding-school roommate Raymond, and the elderly Indian Johnny Raven are left stranded in the Canadian wilderness. Trapped in a frozen world of moose, wolves, and bears, two boys from vastly different cultures come to depend on each other for their very survival. With the brutal subarctic winter fast approaching, Gabe and Raymond soon find themselves stranded in Deadmen Valley. The only sound is a dull roar downstream, as the Cessna drifts helplessly toward the falls.

The pilot sets the plane down on the lake-like surface of the upper river for a closer look at the thundering falls. Below is the spectacular Nahanni River - wall-to-wall whitewater racing between sheer cliffs and plunging over Virginia Falls. From the window of the small floatplane, fifteen-year-old Gabe Rogers is getting his first look at Canada's magnificent Northwest Territories with Raymond Providence, his roommate from boarding school.

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