Runaways on the Inside Passage

Young readers will thrill to this breathless story of courage and determination set in the Alaska wilderness. Abandoned by their mother in Seattle, thirteen-year-old twins Annie and David Ross enlist the help of Lars Hansen, an elderly commercial fisherman, to find their father in Alaska. In late November, when most fishing vessels are decommissioned for the winter, the trio sets out from Puget Sound in a forty-foot salmon troller for an eight-hundred-mile journey along the Inside Passage.

Pursued by the authorities as runaways, and with Lars's health failing, the three experience one adventure after another as they inch their way North, through terrifying winter storms and frightening encounters with strangers. In the process, Annie and David also make new, lasting friendships and kindle personal reserves of strength that they didn't know existed.

Author: Joe Upton
Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books
Published: 09/01/2002
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 7.83h x 5.39w x 1.11d
ISBN: 9780882405643

Review Citation(s):
Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2003 pg. 60
School Library Journal 08/01/2003 pg. 168
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2003 pg. 376 - Marginal, Seriously Flawed
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2003 pg. 376 - Marginal, Seriously Flawed

About the Author
Upton, Joe: - Upton has written about and naviagated the fishing grounds of New England, British Columbia, and Alaska.