The Winter Road

(Hardback)

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This visceral survival story pits Willa against both arctic temperatures and her own self-doubt. She'll need more than snow boots and her pilot's training to live through this experience. Seventeen-year-old Willa looks at a knight's helmet that she's made in shop class. After thinking for a moment, she looks for a sledgehammer and smashes it. Since her brother, Ray, died, her mother is never around and her father ignores her. She needs to prove herself to them--and to Ray. So when Uncle Jordy's drinking threatens to ruin her mother's research, Willa jumps in his plane and flies the cold Canadian route alone to pick up her mother.

Reviews

"From the compelling first chapter to the terrifying and frigid details, this survival adventure clearly engages all readers into the mystic and challenging northern Canadian wilderness. Purchase this first book for all middle and high school libraries." "--Library Media Connection"
"Even though this is essentially a gripping survival story, it is also a well-written, thoughtful book about a girl's desperate efforts to gain her father's approval." --"School Library Journal"
"Remarkable story of ingenuity and courage. . . . While this novel will remind readers of Gary Paulsen's "Hatchet", it is a welcome survival tale with a young woman as the sympathetic, brave and resourceful protagonist." --"Publishers Weekly"

Author Bio

Terry Hokenson grew up in southeast Texas and central Minnesota and worked as a carpenter and an attorney. An avid year-round camper, he lives in Minneapolis and is active in the Minneapolis Quaker Meeting. He has one grown daughter.