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| Runaways on the Inside Passage | 
 enlarge | Author: Joe Upton
Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books
Category: Book
List Price: $9.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 414598
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0882405659
EAN: 9780882405650
ASIN: 0882405659
Publication Date: September 1, 2002
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Product Description
Young readers will thrill to this breathless story of courage and determination set in the Alaska wilderness. Abandoned by their mother in Seattle, thirteen-year-old twins Annie and David Ross enlist the help of Lars Hansen, an elderly commercial fisherman, to find their father in Alaska. In late November, when most fishing vessels are decommissioned for the winter, the trio sets out from Puget Sound in a forty-foot salmon troller for an eight-hundred-mile journey along the Inside Passage.Pursued by the authorities as runaways, and with Lars's health failing, the three experience one adventure after another as they inch their way North, through terrifying winter storms and frightening encounters with strangers. In the process, Annie and David also make new, lasting friendships and kindle personal reserves of strength that they didn't know existed.
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 A Winning Book for All Children! February 23, 2007
Have you ever wanted to run away to Alaska? Well that's what these kids did! In Runaways on the Inside Passage by Joe Upton 13 year-old twins David and Annie are abandoned by their mother and they decide to sail to Alaska in search of their father with help from Lars, an old family friend. What happens when Lars becomes ill and the Coast Guard goes after them? Will they make it to their father's home alive?
This is a great book for children of all ages! I highly recommend it. The way it is written it is like you are there on the boat deck looking out at the high seas. It is action-packed and makes almost any other book pale in comparison to this one. You learn a lot about sailing and the lengths people will go to in search of a family. If you read this book you will find out about love, kindness, and teamwork through the perspective of two 13 year olds.
This book is completely amazing!
 Inappropriate Reading for Ages 4 - 8 September 9, 2006
I bought this book for my [...] grandson but thankfully, I decided to read it before I gave it to him. I have discarded the book. There is an episode where a dirty old drunk with evil thoughts pulls off the towel of the teenage girl who just stepped out of the shower. This is totally inappropriate reading material for young readers. There are also two other similar references. The book should be pulled off book shelves.
A winner for boys (and girls too) October 18, 2005
Every "Books for boys" program I have attended lately emphasizes technology, non-fiction, hands-on how-to-do-it stuff. It's in here. For the boy who is being forced to read fiction by a well-meaning teacher, this is great. I found the loss of tension at the ending to be a little less satisfying than the rest of the book but in general I will recommend this to my library users, young and old, male and female, who are looking for something with things to learn, in addition to story.
Listen to a real mariner . . . November 28, 2004
Anyone who has read Joe Upton's other books knows that he has forgotten more about the sea and its changing moods than the reviewer from the School Library Journal will ever begin to understand. If the language is a bit challenging, so much the better. Kids love this book!
Two Teenagers and Some Very Real Salt Spray September 17, 2004
The author of this book knows all to well what can go wrong on a trip to Alaska in the dead of winter. He also knows that a pair of plucky teenagers can plausibly make the trip by themselves with a little advice from an old fisherman too sick to leave his bunk and some well-timed good luck.
The thirteen-year-old brother and sister who make this trip have just enough Indiana Jones bravado and resourcefulness to meet the challenges and not so much that they are no longer believable. They experience, as have generations of fishermen, the very real fear of battling winter storms, the delicious peace of a safe haven after harrowing days at sea, and the warm but gruff hospitality of the people who live in the remote communities along the British Columbia and Alaska coast.
"Runaways on the Inside Passage" is a nice mix of real situations and fiction that piles one adventure after another and brings the crew of a Foss tug towing a barge across the Queen Charlottes just in time to make sure this novel reaches a happy ending.
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