Abalone Summer

by John Dowd

Book Overview

Twelve-year-old Jim, depressed after his father's death, finds adventure and challenge when he spends the summer with a Department of Fisheries diver off the rugged coast of British Columbia's Queen... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1895714249
• ISBN13: 9781895714241
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Raincoast Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

An excellent book for all ages of readers!

When I was 13 years old this book was given to me. It intrigued me as I read the back cover. I read the book and was astonished by John Dowd's amazing writing. He took me into the book and kept me there. I couldn't put the book down. The book starts out in Canada where a young boy named Jim is trapped in a neighborhood he hates. His father passed away in a car wreck so he lives with his mother now. Jim has toughened up since the wreck. A wealthy fisherman calls on Jim's mother and in the midst of things the man offers Jim a job on a fishing boat called The Kingfisher. Jim is offered $... dollars a month he is on the boat. From there he has many adventures in the Queen Charlet Islands on the tip of the Canadian coast. If you have an interest in boats or just love good writing you will defiantly enjoy this book, I did at the age of 13.