Down the Yukon

by Will Hobbs

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688174728
• ISBN13: 9780688174729
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Never a dull moment!

What a read! This one is likely to keep you reading right through to the end. I loved the historical references throughout, which gives the story a feeling of reality. The adventures just keep coming. I'm glad there is a sequal to Jason's Gold every bit as exciting as the original, and this is it!

Wild River

There are three brothers and their names Jason, Ethan, Abraham. The three brothers' own a saw mill in Dawson. One day this man named Donner took the saw mill away from the three brothers and he wanted to the brothers' to sell the saw mill to him. So Jason was reading in the news paper about a race to Nome. The winner of the race will get 20,000 thousand dollars. Nome is located in Canada. Jason got a hold of a good friend her name is Jamie. So Jamie comes down the Yukon on a steam boat. She and Jason all that night got together and checked the canoe out to see if it was in good condition. They packed their boat all up with their stuff. Jason and Jamie took the canoe to the starting point and got in. The gun went boom! Jamie and Jason got in fist place going down the Yukon. They ran into a big cotton tree so they had to go around it. They were racing against Donner, Donner cut down a Burch tree and the trunk of the tree put a hole in their canoe. So they made a raft and went up stream and traded the raft for a Burch wood canoe. Jamie and Jason entered the ocean and got a kayak from the Eskimos. The two of them went down the ocean. They got out and ran towards the building. I'm not going to tell you what happens. If I tell you I'll ruin the end of the book.

Philly's Book Review

Jason's brother Ethan loses the family mill in a poker bet. Jason and his friend Jamie decided they need to enter the Great race to get the mill back. First prize in the race is twenty-thousand dollars. Donner, the man Ethan lose the bet to, said he would sell the mill back too him for three thousand dollars. After days on the Yukon Jason and Jamie get their canoe stuck on a log. After hours of hard work they get it unstuck. Jason and Jamie make up the time by paddling hard. Jason and Jamie see that another family has gotton stuck and decided to help them. They leave there boat on a near by island. After helping the family, Jason and JAmie return to find that Donner, who is also in the race, has chopped down a and it has crusted there boat. Now they have to build a boat. Will they make it in time? Will they win back the mill? To find out read Down The Yukon by Will Hobbs.

An exciting and Fun Book

Down Yhe Yukon, was a very good book it had many exciting and interesting parts. I thought it had some very dull or boring parts to it though. It takes place after the gold rush in alaska with Jason Hawthorn, Jamie Dunavant, and A dog named Burnt Paw. Dawson City just burtn down and Jason lost his job and goes to join a race up the Yukon River to get his company back. He is in the race with Jamie the girl he loves and his dog Burnt Paw who saved from an famous boxer. While this race they go through many difficult and rough times.Its up to whether to see if wins the race now.