The Hill (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781772780024)

Seeking cell phone reception after a remote plane crash, city kid Jared and local Kyle scale a hill that Kyle's Cree grandmother has forbidden him to climb. Coming down the next day, the boys find that the plane has disappeared, the forest has changed, and something is hunting them. A modern imagining of the Cree W?tiko legend.

Jared's plane has crashed in the Alberta wilderness, and Kyle is first on the scene. When Jared insists on hiking up the highest hill in search of cell phone reception, Kyle hesitates; his Cree grandmother has always forbidden him to go near it. There's no stopping Jared, though, so Kyle reluctantly follows.

After a night spent on the hilltop--with no cell service--the teens discover something odd: the plane has disappeared. Nothing in the forest surrounding them seems right. In fact, things seem very wrong.

And worst of all, something is hunting them.

Karen Bass, the multi-award-winning author of Graffiti Knight and Uncertain Soldier, brings her signature action packed style to a chilling new subject: the Cree W?tiko legend. Inspired by the real story of a remote plane crash and by the legends of her Cree friends and neighbours, Karen brings eerie life--or perhaps something other than life--to the northern Alberta landscape in The Hill.

Author: Karen Bass
ISBN-10: 1772780022
ISBN-13: 9781772780024
Publisher: Pajama Press
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2016
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.60w x 0.70d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.3
Point Value: 8
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 184180 / Hill


Review Citation(s):
Quill & Quire 03/01/2016 pg. 29
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2016
School Library Journal 09/01/2016
Voice of Youth Advocates 10/01/2016 - Recommended - Readable