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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 01/29/2013
ISBN: 9780061708787
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.80w x 0.90d
Award: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award - Nominee
Award: Young Reader's Choice Award - Nominee

Review Citations: 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

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