He boarded a small plane with a boy his age named Raymond and an old man named Johnny. After a few weeks of school, he decided to go visit his Dad. His father works on the oil rigs, and he wanted Gabe to live in the NWT for a year and go to school and visit him. Gabe Rogers, a teenage boy from Texas, flew up to the Northwest Territories because his Dad wanted him to experience the deep cold. Will's books have won many other awards, including the California Young Reader Medal, the Western Writers of America Spur Award, the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, the Colorado Book Award, and nominations to state award lists in over thirty states. He lives with his wife, Jean, in Durango, Colorado. A graduate of Stanford University and former reading and language arts teacher, Will has been a full-time writer since 1990. In outdoor stories that appeal to both boys and girls, Hobbs has readers discovering wild places, sharing adventures with people from varied backgrounds, and exploring how to make important choices in their own lives. Ghost Canoe received the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1998 for Best Young Adult Mystery. ALA also named Far North and Downriver to their list of the 100 Best Young Adult Books of the Twentieth Centrury. Seven of his novels, Bearstone, Downriver, The Big Wander, Beardance, Far North, The Maze, and Jason's Gold, were named Best Books for Young Adults by the American Library Association. WILL HOBBS is the author of seventeen novels for upper elementary, middle school and young adult readers, as well as two picture book stories.

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