Will Hobbs
2) Jason's gold
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When news of the discovery of gold in Canada's Yukon Territory in 1897 reaches fifteen-year-old Jason, he embarks on a 10,000-mile journey to strike it rich.
4) Ghost canoe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Nathan, fishing with the Makah in the Pacific Northwest, finds himself holding a vital clue when a mysterious stranger comes to town looking for Spanish treasure.
5) City of gold
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Determined to recover his family's mules, fifteen-year-old Owen is joined by his kid brother and Telluride's notorious marshal in pursuit of a rustler--all the way to Butch Cassidy's hideout"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
After fourteen-year-old Andy slips away from his kayaking group to visit the wilderness site of his archaeologist father's death, a storm strands him on Admiralty Island, Alaska, where he manages to survive, encounters unexpected animal and human inhabitants, and looks for traces of the earliest prehistoric immigrants to America.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old half-Inuit Nick and his white brother, Ryan, meet and share an adventure on the Firth River in the Canadian Arctic, facing white water, wild animals, and fierce weather as Ryan documents the effects of climate change on caribou for National Geographic
8) The maze
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild.
11) Far North
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1997, c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After the destruction of their floatplane, sixteen-year-old Gabe and his Dene friend, Raymond, struggle to survive a winter in the wilderness of the Northwest Territories.
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Brady and his cousin Quinn love extreme sports, but nothing could prepare them for the aftermath of Brady's close encounter with a meteorite after it crashes into his Black Hills, South Dakota, bedroom.
13) Downriver
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Jessie and the other rebellious teenage members of a wilderness survival school team abandon their adult leader, hijack his boats, and try to run the dangerous white water at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
14) Down the Yukon
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In the wake of Dawson City's Great Fire of 1899, sixteen-year-old Jason and his girlfriend Jamie canoe the Yukon River across Alaska in an epic race from Canada's Klondike to the new gold fields at Cape Nome.
15) Bearstone
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1991, c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Growing up without parents and without schooling, 14-year-old Cloyd is trouble-trouble to himself and everyone else. Sent by his tribe to a home for Indian boys, he is alone and half-wild in remote Utah canyons. As his feeling of isolation turns to desperation, he runs away to find even more trouble. When Cloyd is found and taken to live with an old rancher, he begins to explore the countryside. High in the majestic Colorado mountains, he finds a...
16) Howling Hill
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While separated from her family in the wilderness area along the Nahanni River, a wolf pup discovers that she can express her loneliness in a long, loud howl.
17) Beardream
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Short Tail climbs the mountain to find the Great Bear, he tires, falls asleep, and slips into a dream in which the Great One reveals a marvelous secret.