River Thunder

by Will Hobbs

Book Overview

All the characters from Downriver--an ALA Best Book for Young Adults--return for a new adventure down the Colorado. In the year since they last were together, each has changed; each feels more mature.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385323166
• ISBN13: 9780385323161
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

River Thunder

River Thunder is a very good and exciting book. The book takes place on the Colorado River for 14 days. A group of friends met at the river to go on the best journey ever. Throughout the book it takes you through countless rapids second by second. It has crashes, thrill rides, and relationships. The best part is where they go over the lava rapid, the most deadly rapid at three times its normal force. It's got everything in it that you could want: mystery, excitement, and adventure. It's a book for people who like a good mystery and who like cool, at the edge of your seat, thrill rides in your mind. This is an awesome book that really sucks you in.

A grand adventure in the Grand Canyon!

I never knew there was so much life below the Grand Canyon walls. Seeing the Canyon from the visitors center 1 mile above the Colorado River can be quite overwhelming, but wait until you see it from the river itself. This book is more than an adventure down the Colorado by raft, it's geography, hiking guide and biography. I have never wanted to explore the Canyon more than since I read this book, and feel I already have. The book is well written and well developed. It's excitement and adventure will keep the attention and build imagination. It's also great for adults and tells a lot about the Canyon itself. It's based on a real actual accounts Will Hobbs (author) had himself while in the Canyon. I reccomend this book for all ages and abilities. Get surged witin the River Thunder!

Rver Thunder is a sequel that should be aquel it's that good

You always wander what happens next in a book. This book is the perfect example of a sequel. It's like reading from down river to river thunder without ever stopping it leaves you wanting to go adventure yourself. Go on the adventure River Thunder.

Awesome book! you will never want this story to end!

I was thrilled when i found out that there was a sequel to "Down River" and i knew i had to read it. "Thunder river" is an awesome book! i could not put it down. it is written beautifully and i never wanted the story to end! by the end you will be wishing fo another sequel!

River Thunder: An Action Filled Adventure

Teenagers are always going through drastic changes, especially mental changes. These changes are hard to cope with sometimes. The book, River Thunder by Will Hobbs, demonstrates and cements how the changes that teenagers go through affects their peers in even life-threatening situations. Hobbs describes and shows these changes and effects in a unique way. Hobbs' familiarity with whitewater rafting provides an adventure filled trip full of serious problems, disagreements, and major decisions. There was never a moment that was boring. The six teens, Pug, Rita, Jessie, later Adam, Troy, and Star are back together for another trip down the Grand Canyon's Colorado River. Hobbs always kept me reading on, never wanting to stop. The decisions that Jessie, a sixteen-year-old girl with much to learn in life, has to make are more meaningful than most decisions anyone in life makes. Making the decisions only build the suspense and excitement. When Jessie decides to go on the trip, she begins to wish she never had. The Colorado River's water level is astronomically high and the whitewater rapids are totally unpredictable. Star, Jessie's adopted sister, and Kit, an experienced river rafter, provide Jessie with important background information, but in the end her choices are totally up to her. Troy is the hardest thing for Jessie to get by. She never got over Troy from the beginning, and now she must face his loneliness and lack of love. Troy is so determined to get Jessie back, but when she objects, he "blows" up and almost ruins the rest of the trip for everyone. I recommend this book for everyone, especially teenagers and young adults, because it is an incredible book that shows six teenagers learning how to work together and get over things in the past. Hobbs is an exceptional author in that he describes the problems the teens face with great detail. It was almost like I was part of it. You do not need to be an experienced whitewater rafter to read River Thunder; all you need to be is prepared for some high paced action and adventure.