Will Hobbs Books In Order

Bearstone Books In Publication Order

  1. Bearstone (1989)
  2. Beardance (1993)

Jason’s Gold Books In Publication Order

  1. Jason’s Gold (1999)
  2. Down the Yukon (2001)

River Books In Publication Order

  1. Downriver (1991)
  2. River Thunder (1997)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. Bearstone And Other Selected Works (1998)

Will Hobb’s Picture Books In Publication Order

  1. Beardream (1997)
  2. Howling Hill (1998)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Changes in Latitudes (1988)
  2. The Big Wander (1992)
  3. Kokopelli’s Flute (1995)
  4. Far North (1996)
  5. Ghost Canoe (1997)
  6. The Maze (1998)
  7. Wild Man Island (2002)
  8. Jackie’s Wild Seattle (2003)
  9. Leaving Protection (2004)
  10. Crossing the Wire (2006)
  11. Go Big or Go Home (2008)
  12. Take Me to the River (2010)
  13. Never Say Die (2013)
  14. City of Gold (2020)

Bearstone Book Covers

Jason’s Gold Book Covers

River Book Covers

Collections Book Covers

Will Hobb’s Picture Book Covers

Standalone Novels Book Covers

Will Hobbs Books Overview

Bearstone

Fourteen year old Cloyd was trouble. Trouble to himself and everyone else. He’d grown up without his parents, without schooling, half wild and alone in remote Utah canyons. Sent by his tribe to a group home for Indian boys, his feeling of isolation turns to desperation and even more trouble. But high in the majestic mountains of Colorado where Cloyd is taken to live with an old rancher, he finds a small carved turquoise bear in an Indian burial cave. Secretly renaming himself Lone Bear, Cloyd calls upon the strength of his ancient ancestors first to do battle with his own hostilities, but finally to discover the magic power of an old man’s love, and the secrets of living in a world he has just begun to understand. An IRA/CBC Teachers Choices bookNotable Children’s Trade Book in the field of Social StudiesMountain & Plains Bookseller Association Children’s Book Award

Beardance

Saving The Last Grizzlies As this action packed sequel to Bearstone opens, Cloyd Atcitty and his rancher friend Walter Landis are heading back into the mountains, this time chasing the old man’s dream of finding a lost Spanish gold mine. But when Cloyd hears that a mother grizzly and her cubs have been sighted nearby, he immediately hopes it might be the mate of the bear he had tried to save from a hunter the previous summer. When the mother bear dies in a tragic accident, Cloyd realizes that if her cubs don’t survive, grizzlies will disappear from Colorado forever. He refuses to leave the cubs, determined to stay with them until they can den. But with winter deepening in the mountains, can Cloyd himself survive?

Jason’s Gold

‘Gold!’ Jason shouted at the top of his lungs. ‘Read all about it! Gold discovered in Alaska!’

Within hours of hearing the thrilling news, fifteen year old Jason Hawthorn jumps a train for Seattle, stow away on a ship bound for the goldfields, and joins thousands of fellow prospectors attempting the difficult journey to the Klondike. The Dead Horse Trail, the infamous Chilkott Pass, and a five hundred mile trip by canoe down the Yukon River lie ahead. With help from a young writer named Jack London, Jason and his dog face moose, bears, and the terrors of a subartic winter in this bone chilling survival story.

00 01 Tayshas High School Reading List, 01 02 Young Hoosier Book Award Masterlist Gr 4 6, 01 02 Young Hoosier Book Award Masterlist Gr 6 8, 01 02 William Allen White Children’s Book Award Masterlist, and 01 Heartland Award for Excellence in YA Lit Finalist

Notable Children’s Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2000, National Council for SS & Child. Book Council, 2000 Best Books for Young Adults ALA, and 2000 Quick Picks for Young Adults Recomm. Books for Reluctant Young Readers

Down the Yukon

Amid the shouts and the cheers and the splashing of oars, it was pandemonium. ‘Nome or bust!’ I yelled.

In the shadow of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City is burning down, changing forever the lives of thousands in the Klondike goldfields. All the talk is of Nome, nearly two thousand miles away, where gold has been discovered in the beach sands.

Jason Hawthorn is itching to join the new rush. He and his brothers have been cheated out of their sawmill, and Jason has vowed to buy it back. A race to Nome has been announced, with a $20,000 prize. Jason’s partner in his canoe is the girl he loves, Jamie Dunavant, freshly returned from the States, as she promised she would.

The Great Race across Alaska will be a grueling test for the two of them as they face the hazards of the Yukon River, two very dangerous men Jason has reason to fear, and the terrors of the open sea. Only their combined skills, courage, and mutual devotion can pull them through.

Downriver

No adults, no permit, no river map. Just some ‘borrowed’ gear from Discovery Unlimited, the outdoor education program Jessie and her new companions have just ditched. Jessie and the others are having the time of their lives floating beneath sheer red walls, exploring unknown caves and dangerous waterfalls, and plunging through the Grand Canyon’s roaring rapids. No one, including Troy, who emerges as the group’s magnetic and ultimately frightening leader, can forsee the challenges and conflicts.

What will be the consequences of their reckless adventure?

River Thunder

Jessie, Troy, and the rest of the crew from Downriver have returned to the Grand Canyon for adventure down the Colorado River. In the year since they last were together, each has changed; each feels more mature. But how will they interact now that they are facing new challenges challenges greater than anything they’ve had to deal with at home?For Troy, it is a chance to prove he can be a team player, someone worthy of friendship and love. For Jessie, the river is the ultimate test. Does she have what it takes to row down the mighty Colorado? The only way to find out is to get into the raft and set off to face the thundering rapids and the powerful emotions that the river unleashes.

Beardream

Spring has come to the muntains, and the bears have emerged from their winter’s sleep all but the Great Bear, who sleeps on in his den. In the Ute village, a boy called Short Tail worries that the Geat Bear will starve if he doesn’t waken. So Short Tail heads off into the mountains to rouse the Great Bear. But on the way to the Great Bear’s den, Short Tail too falls asleep, and slips into a magical dream in which the Great Bear teaches him a wornderful secret to share with his people. Will Hobbs’s lyrical text and Jill Kastner’s rich, evoctive oil paintings bring the story of a Native American tradition ot vivid life.

Howling Hill

Hanni the wolf pup has never been alone before, and now she’s lost in the wilderness. She’s too little and scared even to cry out for help! But Hanni soon learns to trust the world outside and the wolf inside and finally discovers a howl within, long a deep, that brings her family to the rescue. From an award winning novelist comes this thrilling picture book tale, illustrated with dynamic paintings that capture the dramatic landscape of the far north.

Changes in Latitudes

Trouble In Paradise

Sixteen year old Travis is looking for a good time. A vacation in Mexico with his mother, sister, and little brother might cramp his style, but he’s willing to take that risk for a chance to cruise the beaches.

Travis soon discovers that even with his headphones and shades, he can’t completely cut himself off from his family’s problems. He begins to understand why his father didn’t come with them: His mother is contemplating a divorce. Meanwhile his younger brother, Teddy, becomes increasingly obsessed with protecting some endangered sea turtles near the resort.

In spite of himself, Travis is drawn into Teddy’s efforts to save the turtles. But it takes a devastating tragedy beyond his imagining to shake Travis out of his cynicism a tragedy that will change his family forever.

The Big Wander

A Summer To Remember Fourteen year old Clay Lancaster has been dreaming for years of the adventure he calls The Big Wander a summer in the Southwest with his older brother, Mike, searching for their uncle Clay. When Mike decides to return home to Seattle and the girlfriend he left behind, Clay chooses to stay on and continue the search on his own. Following a tip about his uncle, he heads out into the most remote canyons of the Navajo reservation, with only a burro and a dog named Curly for company. Clay loses his heart to the vast, rugged land and to an adventurous girl with a long, dark braid but finds his uncle in big trouble. Can Clay pull off a risky plan to save his uncle and the wild horses Uncle Clay has put his own life in jeopardy to protect?

Kokopelli’s Flute

The Magic Had Always Been There…
Tepary Jones had always felt it. Fascinated by the magic of the ancient cliff dwelling called Picture House, he knew it was the perfect place to view his first total eclipse of the moon. Perhaps it would help him understand the secrets of the Ancient Ones. In the dark silence, Tep and his dog Dusty waited for the lunar show. What Tep witnessed, to his horror, were robbers with shovels chipping into the red sandstone, destroying the ancient pictures, and stealing the priceless treasures! Left behind in their haste was a small, polished bone flute. Something told Tep he shouldn’t put the flute to his lips, but he just couldn’t resist. And then the magic began…
THE MAGIC HAD ALWAYS BEEN THERE…
Tepary Jones had always felt it. Fascinated by the magic of the ancient cliff dwelling called Picture House, he knew it was the prefect place to view his first total eclipse of the moon. Perhaps it would help him understand the secrets of the Ancients Ones. In the dark silence, Tep and his dog Dusty waited for the lunar show. What Tep witnesses, to his horror, were robbers with shovels chipping into the red sandstone, destroying the ancient pictures, and stealing the priceless treasures! Left behind in their haste was a small, polished bone flute. Something told Tep he shouldn t put the flute to his lips, but he just couldn t resist. And then the magic began…

Far North

From the window of the small floatplane, fifteen year old Gabe Rogers is getting his first look at Canada’s magnificent Northwest Territories with Raymond Providence, his roommate from boarding school. Below is the spectacular Nahanni River wall to wall whitewater racing between sheer cliffs and plunging over Virginia Falls. The pilot sets the plane down on the lake like surface of the upper river for a closer look at the thundering falls. Suddenly the engine quits. The only sound is a dull roar downstream, as the Cessna drifts helplessly toward the falls…
With the brutal subarctic winter fast approaching, Gabe and Raymond soon find themselves stranded in Deadmen Valley. Trapped in a frozen world of moose, wolves, and bears, two boys from vastly different cultures come to depend on each other for their very survival. After an airplane accident, fifteen year old Gabe, his Dene Indian boarding school roommate Raymond, and the elderly Indian Johnny Raven are left stranded in the Canadian wilderness. The wise old man calls on his deeply rooted knowledge of the land to keep the tiny group alive, leaving the boys to battle nature alone when he dies. ‘Hobbs delivers breathless action and an inspiring sense of Canada’s vast landscape.’ Publishers Weekly. 00 01 Land of Enchantment Book Award Masterlist Gr. 6 9

Ghost Canoe

After a sailing ship breaks up on the rocks off Washington’s storm-tossed Cape Flattery, Nathan McAllister, the fourteen-year-old son of the lighthouse keeper, refuses to believe the authorities, who say there were no survivors. Unexplained footprints on a desolate beach, a theft at the trading post, and glimpses of a wild ‘hairy man’ convince Nathan that someone is hiding in the remote sea caves along the coast. With his new friend, Lighthouse George, a fisherman from the famed Makah whaling tribe, Nathan paddles the fierce waters of the Pacific–fishing, hunting seals, searching for clues. Alone in the forest, Nathan discovers a ghostly canoe and a skeleton that may unlock the mystery of ancient treasure, betrayal…
and murder.

2000-2001 Georgia’s Picture Storybook Award & Georgia’s Children’s Book Award Masterlist

01-02 Land of Enchantment Book Award Masterlist Gr. 6-9

The Maze

Just fourteen, Rick Walder is alone, on the run, and desperate. Stowing away in the back of a truck, he suddenly finds himself at a dead end, out in the middle of nowhere. The Maze. In this surreal landscape of stark redrock spires and deep sandstone canyons, Rick stumbles into the remote camp of Lon Perigrino, a bird biologist who is realeasing fledgling California condors back into the wild. Intriqued by the endangered condors and the strange bearded man dedicated to saving them, Rick decides to stay on. When two men with a vicious dog drive up in a battered old Humvee, Rick discovers that Lon and his birds are in grave danger. Will he be able to save them? In a heart-stopping adventure infused with the spirit of the Icarus myth and a boy’s dreams of flight, Will Hobbs brings readers a unique tale of identity, personal growth, and friendship.

01 Blue Spruce Award Masterlist YA Cat., 01 AZ Young Reader Award Masterlist Teen Bks cat., 00-01 Sunshine State Young Reader’s Award Masterlist Gr. 6-8, 00-01 Black-Eyed Susan Award Masterlist, 00-01 Minnesota’s Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award Masterlist, 00-01 South Carolina Book Award Nomination Masterlist Grds 6-9, 00-01 Lone Star Reading List, 00-01 Utah Book Award Gr. 7-12, 01 Washington State Evergreen YA Book Award Masterlist, 00-01 Young Hoosier Book Award Masterlist Gr. 6-8, and 01 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award Nominee Masterlist

Wild Man Island

The land was slipping away,
the wind was howling,
and I was in a world of trouble.

0n the last day of a sea kayak trip in southeast Alaska, fourteen-year-old Andy Galloway paddles away from the group. He’s on a mission of the heart. His father, an archeologist, died only a few miles away. A sudden gale propels Andy across the strait. He swims ashore, freezing and barefoot, onto Admiralty Island, an immense wilderness of forests, rain, and bears.

When hope of rescue fades, Andy starts walking. Starvation leads him further into the wild and into danger. He encounters a dog running with wolves, and later a man dressed in cedar-bark clothing, carrying a stone-tipped spear. The Wild Man vanishes into the forest, but the dog reappears and leads Andy to…
the Wild Man’s lair, at the mouth of a cave.

It’s fear that drives Andy into the cave and to the adventure of a lifetime. What’s at stake are the discoveries Andy’s father died trying to find, the answers to the most exciting puzzle in American archeology — who were the first Americans?

Jackie’s Wild Seattle

How do you rescue a wild coyote trapped in an elevator in a downtown Seattle office building? How do you save an injured baby seal at the bottom of a cliff with the tide coming in? Fourteen year old Shannon Young, visiting from New Jersey, is about to find out. Shannon’s parents, both doctors, are working in refugee camps overseas while she and her little brother, Cody, are spending the summer in Seattle with their mysterious uncle Neal. To their surprise, Uncle Neal drives an ambulance for Jackie’s Wild Seattle, an animal rescue center. Shannon and Cody join their uncle and his partner, a border collie, for nine weeks of breathless, sometimes reckless, often hilarious adventure chasing after whatever wild critters need help. When Uncle Neal is injured by a red tailed hawk, Shannnon summons her courage and becomes the one who rescues the animals. Jackie, who runs the center, believes in the ‘circle of healing,’ and in Shannon’s circle everyone is in need of healing. Traumatized by the events of September 11, Cody is sure disaster is about to strike. Shannon wants to believe in Tyler, a teenage working off his court appointed time at the wildlife center, but Uncle Neal thinks he’s a ticking time bomb. Meanwhile, Neal is keeping secrets of his own. Beneath the excitement, there’s always an undertow of danger. Everything is uncertain, and home is so very far away.

Leaving Protection

When sixteen year old Robbie Daniels leaves Port Protection, Alaska, for the nearby fishing town of Craig, king salmon season is less than forty eight hours away from starting without him. The few salmon fishermen who can afford to hire help have already found their deckhands, and time is running out on Robbie’s dream of fishing the open ocean for kings.

A tip from a teacher puts Robbie on the trail of a legendary captain named Tor Torsen, but when Robbie boards Tor’s fishing troller without permission, he happens upon a piece of Russian history that Tor would do just about anything to hide. Then Tor surprises Robbie by hiring him on, but for reasons darker than Robbie ever could guess.

Catching king salmon from dawn till dusk, Robbie thinks himself lucky until he discovers his captain’s true intentions. Tor is searching along the coastline for historic metal plaques buried by early Russian explorers laying claim to Alaska. When Robbie finds out how valuable these possession plaques are, he fears he may know too much to survive. Tor’s wrath and a violent storm at sea put Robbie’s courage and wits to the ultimate test.

Crossing the Wire

When falling crop prices threaten his family with starvation, fifteen year old Victor Flores heads north in a desperate attempt to ‘cross the wire’ from Mexico into the United States so he can find work and send money home. But with no ‘coyote money’ to pay the smugglers who sneak illegal workers across the border, Victor must struggle to survive as he jumps trains, stows away on trucks, and hikes grueling miles through the Arizona desert. Victor’s journey is fraught with danger, as he faces freezing cold, scorching heat, hunger, and dead ends. It’s a gauntlet run by millions attempting to cross the border. Through Victor’s often desperate struggle, Will Hobbs brings to life one of the great human dramas of our time.

Go Big or Go Home

A meteorite is hurtling toward the Black Hills of South Dakota…
.

Brady Steele watches in awe as a fireball comes crashing through the roof of his house. Brady immediately calls up his cousin, Quinn. They both love all things extreme, and this is the most extreme thing ever!

Fred, as Brady names his space rock, turns out to be one of the rarest meteorites ever found. Professor Rip Ripley from the museum in Hill City wants to study a sliver of it in search of extraterrestrial bacteria. He’s hoping to discover the first proof of life beyond Earth, a momentous breakthrough for the new science of astrobiology.

During a wild week of extreme bicycling, fishing, and caving, Brady and Quinn battle their rivals, the notorious Carver boys, for possession of the meteorite. With each new day, Brady is discovering he’s able to do strange and wonderful feats that shouldn’t be possible. At the same time, he’s developing some frightening symptoms. Could he be infected with long dormant microbes from space? Is Fred a prize or a menace?

Related Authors

Leave a Comment