Runaways on the Inside Passage
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A01=Joe Upton
Alaskan wilderness
Author_Joe Upton
boats and ships
Category=YFC
children's boats and ships books
children's book
children's runaway books
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fishing vessel
Inside Passage
Puget Sound
runaways
salmon troller
stories about twins
survival adventure
survival fiction
YA adventure
YA fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9780882405650
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 127 x 200mm
- Publication Date: 17 Oct 2002
- Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Upton has written about and naviagated the fishing grounds of New England, British Columbia, and Alaska.
