Adventure, Mystery and Danger with Will Hobbs
created by Kim Keith, Cotuit Elementary School
December 2006
CROSSING THE WIRE- Fifteen year old Victor Flores journeys north in an attempt to cross the Arizona border and find work in the United States to support his family in central Mexico.
DOWN THE YUKON- In the wake of Dawson City’s Great Fire of 1899, sixteen year old Jason and his girlfriend Jamie canoe the Yukon River across Alaska in an epic race from Canada’s Klondike to the new gold fields at Cape Nome.
DOWN RIVER- Fifteen year old Jessie and the other rebellious teenage members of a wilderness survival school team abandon their adult leader, hijack his boats, and try to run the dangerous white water at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
GHOST CANOE- Fourteen year old Nathan, fishing with the Makah in the Pacific Northwest, finds himself holding a vital clue when a mysterious stranger comes to town looking for Spanish treasure.
LEAVING PROTECTION- Sixteen year old Robbie Daniels, happy to get a job aboard a troller fishing for king salmon off southeastern Alaska, finds himself in danger when he discovers that his mysterious captain is searching for long buried Russian plaques that lay claim to Alaska and the Northeast.
THE MAZE- Rick, a fourteen year old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild.