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The Hill
Contributor(s): Bass, Karen (Author)
ISBN: 1772780022     ISBN-13: 9781772780024
Publisher: Pajama Press
OUR PRICE:   $11.66  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: August 2016
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Thrillers & Suspense
- Young Adult Fiction | Diversity & Multicultural
- Young Adult Fiction | Action & Adventure - Survival Stories
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Measure: 590
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.6" W x 7.9" (0.70 lbs) 256 pages
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 184180
Reading Level: 4.3   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 8.0
 
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Publisher Description:

Seeking cell phone reception after a remote plane crash, city kid Jared and local Kyle scale a hill that Kyle's Cree grandmother has forbidden him to climb. Coming down the next day, the boys find that the plane has disappeared, the forest has changed, and something is hunting them. A modern imagining of the Cree W htiko legend.

Jared's plane has crashed in the Alberta wilderness, and Kyle is first on the scene. When Jared insists on hiking up the highest hill in search of cell phone reception, Kyle hesitates; his Cree grandmother has always forbidden him to go near it. There's no stopping Jared, though, so Kyle reluctantly follows.

After a night spent on the hilltop--with no cell service--the teens discover something odd: the plane has disappeared. Nothing in the forest surrounding them seems right. In fact, things seem very wrong.

And worst of all, something is hunting them.

Karen Bass, the multi-award-winning author of Graffiti Knight and Uncertain Soldier, brings her signature action packed style to a chilling new subject: the Cree W htiko legend. Inspired by the real story of a remote plane crash and by the legends of her Cree friends and neighbours, Karen brings eerie life--or perhaps something other than life--to the northern Alberta landscape in The Hill.


Contributor Bio(s): Bass, Karen: - Karen Bass is a multi-award-winning author of novels for young adult readers. Graffiti Knight won the CLA Young Adult Book Award, the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, the R. Ross Annett Award for Children's Literature, and the CAA Exporting Alberta Award. Formerly the library manager in Hythe, Alberta, Karen now lives and writes in Hamilton, Ontario.