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DownriverWill Hobbs

Downriver

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No adults, no permit, no river map. 15-year-old Jessie and her six companions from Discovery Unlimited, an outdoor ed program she's been sent to by her father, “borrow” the company's rafting gear and take off down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon on their own. Floating beneath sheer red walls, camping on white sand beaches, exploring caves and waterfalls, Jessie and the others are at first having the time of their lives. Pursued by helicopters, they boldly push on into the black-walled inner gorge, the heart of the Grand Canyon, only to encounter huge rapids, bone-chilling rain,…

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8 editions
  • Paperback · English · 1996
    Bantam Doubleday Dell Books · 204 pages · 9780440226734
  • Other · English · 2012
    Simon & Schuster, Limited · 9781442445482
  • Other · English · 2012
    Atheneum · 198 pages · 9781442445475
  • Other · English · 2012
    Turtleback · 208 pages · 9780606351225
  • Other · English · 1999
    Tandem Library · 9780833591982
  • Other · English · 1993
    Demco Media · 9780606006996
SurvivalOutward bound schoolsFictionWilderness survivalWhite-water canoeingJuvenile fictionCanoeingCanoes and canoeing, fiction