Will Hobbs

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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1988
  • Latest Book:
    July 2020
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Full Series List in Order

Cloyd Atcitty

1 - Bearstone (Oct-1989)
2 - Beardance (Oct-1993)

Jason Hawthorn

1 - Jason's Gold (Oct-1999)
2 - Down the Yukon (Apr-2001)

Jessie

1 - Downriver (Apr-1991)
2 - River Thunder (Aug-1997)

Book List in Order: 23 titles

  • 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 disco...

  • Bearstone

    Cloyd Atcitty - 1

    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 t...

  • Downriver

    Jessie - 1

    Will Hobbs’s classic tale of whitewater adventure is back in print with an exciting new look.No adults, no permit, no river map. After fifteen-year-old Jessie gets sent to Discovery Unlimited, an outdoor education program, she and six companions â€...

  • The Big Wander

    A Summer To RememberFourteen-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 S...

  • Beardance

    Cloyd Atcitty - 2

    BACK TO BEAR COUNTRY Cloyd Atcitty can't forget the horror of seeing a reckless trophy hunter shoot and kill what might have been the last grizzly bear in the Colorado mountains. Now, in the high country again, he witnesses the tragic death of a mot...

  • Kokopelli's Flute

    THE MAGIC HAD ALWAYS BEEN THERE. Tep Jones has always felt the magic of Picture House, an Anasazi cliff dwelling near the seed farm where he lives with his parents. But he could never have imagined what would happen to him on the night of a lunar ...

  • 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-t...

  • 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 Sho...

  • Ghost Canoe

    A DANGEROUS MYSTERY AND A BOY DETERMINED TO SOLVE IT... 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 authoritie...



  • River Thunder

    Jessie - 2

    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 th...

  • 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, lon...

  • 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 ...

  • Jason's Gold

    Jason Hawthorn - 1

    "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 j...

  • Down the Yukon

    Jason Hawthorn - 2

    The great race across Alaska!As Dawson City goes up in flames, Jason Hawthorn itches to join the new rush for gold in Nome, 1,700 miles away. He and his brothers have been cheated out of their sawmill, so when a $20,000 prize is announced for the win...

  • Wild Man Island

    Andy is in aworld of trouble.On the last day of a sea kayaking trip in southeast Alaska, fourteen-year-old Andy Galloway paddles away from his group to visit the nearby site where his archaeologist father died trying to solve the mystery of the first...

  • A Ship of the Line

  • Jackie's Wild Seattle

    Heart-stopping adventure on the wild side of Seattle! How do you rescue a coyote trapped in the elevator of a downtown office building? How do you save an injured seal at the bottom of a cliff with the tide coming in? Fourteen-year-old Shannon and h...

  • Leaving Protection

    Raised in the island world of southeast Alaska, sixteen-year-old Robbie Daniels jumps at the chance to work as a deckhand on a salmon troller captained by legendary fisherman Tor Torsen. Catching king salmon from dawn till dusk, Robbie is living his ...

  • Crossing the Wire

    When falling crop prices threaten his family with starvation, fifteen-year-old Victor Flores heads north in an 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...



  • Go Big or Go Home

    A meteorite is hurtling toward the Black Hills of South Dakota. . . . Brady Steele's love for all things extreme is given a boost when a fireball crashes through the roof of his house. It turns out that Brady's space rock is one of the rarest meteori...

  • Take Me to the River

    Deep in trouble, Deep in the canyons Fourteen-year-old Dylan Sands has come all the way from North Carolina to Big Bend National Park, on the Texas/Mexico border, to paddle the fabled Rio Grande. His partner in adventure is a local river rat, h...

  • Never Say Die

    When the motto of your village is "never say die," you have a lot to live up to. . . . At home in Canada's Arctic, Nick Thrasher is an accomplished Inuit hunter at fifteen. About to bring home a caribou for his ailing grandfather, Nick loses the m...

  • City of Gold

    Rich in adventure, history, and humor, an odyssey set in the twilight of the Wild West spun by Will Hobbs Weeks after arriving in Colorado to start a new farm, the Hollowell family is looking at disaster when fifteen-year-old Owen witnesses the th...

Award-Winning Books by Will Hobbs

Bearstone
1990 Reading the West -- Children's
Changes in Latitudes
1992 Colorado Blue Spruce Award -- Young Adult
Crossing the Wire
2008 Heartland Award -- Young Adult
Downriver
1997 Colorado Blue Spruce Award -- Young Adult
Far North
1997 Spur Award -- Western Juv Fic
Ghost Canoe
1998 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Young Adult
2001 Land of Enchantment Book Award -- Young Adult
Go Big or Go Home
2009 Reading the West -- Children's Chapter


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Will Hobbs has published 23 books.

Will Hobbs does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, City of Gold, was published in July 2020.

The first book by Will Hobbs, Changes in Latitudes, was published in April 1988.

Yes. Will Hobbs has 3 series.
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