Never Say Die

In this fast-paced adventure story set in the Canadian arctic, fifteen-year-old Inuit hunter Nick Thrasher comes face-to-face with a fearsome creature on a routine caribou hunt gone wrong. Part grizzly, part polar bear, this environmental mutant has been pegged the "grolar bear" by wildlife experts. Nick may have escaped this time, but it won't be his last encounter.

Then Nick's estranged half-brother, Ryan, offers to take him on a rafting trip down a remote part of the Firth River. But when disaster strikes, the two narrowly evade death. They're left stranded without supplies--and then the grolar bear appears. Will Hobbs brings his singular style to this suspenseful story about two brothers fighting for survival against the unpredictable--and sometimes deadly--whims of nature.

Author: Will Hobbs
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 01/29/2013
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.80w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780061708787

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.2
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 159422 / Never Say Die

Award: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award - Nominee
Award: Young Reader's Choice Award - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2012
Booklist 02/15/2013 pg. 71
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2013 pg. 105
School Library Journal 03/01/2013 pg. 161
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2013 - Superior,Well Above Average

About the Author
Hobbs, Will: -

Will Hobbs is the award-winning author of nineteen novels, including Far North, Crossing the Wire, and Take Me to the River.

Never Say Die began with the author's eleven-day raft trip in 2003 down the Firth River on the north slope of Canada's Yukon Territory. Ever since, Will has been closely following what scientists and Native hunters are reporting about climate change in the Arctic. When the first grolar bear turned up in the Canadian Arctic, he began to imagine one in a story set on the Firth River.

A graduate of Stanford University, Will lives with his wife, Jean, in Durango, Colorado.