
Leaving Protection
Author: Will Hobbs
Narrator: Charlie Thurston
Unabridged: 4 hr 24 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 04/01/2012
Categories: Children's Fiction, Action & Adventure Stories

Author: Will Hobbs
Narrator: Charlie Thurston
Unabridged: 4 hr 24 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 04/01/2012
Categories: Children's Fiction, Action & Adventure Stories
Will Hobbs is the author of many outdoor adventure novels for upper elementary, middle school, and young adult readers, as well as a few picture book stories. Several of his novels have been named Best Books for Young Adults by the American Library Association, and Ghost Canoe, his first mystery, won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Mystery. The ALA’s list of the 100 Best Young Adult Books of the Twentieth Century includes two of Will’s titles: Far North and Downriver. A graduate of Stanford University and a former reading and language arts teacher, he lives with his wife in Durango, Colorado.
Charlie Thurston is an experienced audiobook narrator, actor, and playwright who has received numerous Earphones Awards for his work. He has appeared on Law and Order: SVU, and his voice can be heard in audiobooks such as The Oracle Year, Southernmost, The Terranauts, and The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone.
Robbie is 16 and ready to earn some money on his own. He signs on as deckhand to the famous fisherman Tor Torsen. Robbie is finally on his own living his dream of catching king salmon from dusk till dawn. But is Torsen really interested in fishing? When Robbie learns his secret, what will Torsen do......more
Leaving Protection is about a kid named Robbie who is sixteen years old. Robbie left his family and their home of Port Protection, Alaska. He went off to find a job as a deckhand to a salmon trolled. He arrived in a town named Craig to find out that all of the jobs of a deckhand had been taken. A lo......more
One of the books themes is mystery, from the middle to end of the book the mystery plays a big part in the plot. This book would be best enjoyed by someone who is observant or someone who can easily grow to care for characters in a book. A realistic part of the plot is how he joins the salmon fishin......more
When I read the book”leaving protection by will Hobbs”I was always on the edge of my seat in the beginning I was not really in to it then once I read about the first 20 pages I realized that it was a really interesting book. The part that I liked the most would had to been when this boy wonders onto......more
“Climactic finale…grippingly rendered. Fans of maritime tales will relish the atmosphere and the bursts of action.” Publishers Weekly
“Taut, exciting novel…action-packed detail.” Booklist
“Readers who appreciate straightforward outdoor fiction laced with bracing action and heady suspense will enjoy this book.” School Library Journal
“Adventures as compelling as any of Gary Paulsen’s.” Kirkus, praise for the author