Changes in Latitudes (Horizons) - Softcover

Hobbs, Will

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330308947 ISBN 13: 9780330308946

Publisher: Pan Childrens, 1989

Synopsis

Changes In Latitudes

Travis is too busy making his own plans for fun in Mexico to let family problems ruin his vacation. Never mind that his father chooses to stay home, or his mother has more on her mind than sight-seeing. His sister Jennifer is busy doing the family worrying and his kid brother Teddy is obsessed with saving endangered sea turtles. That leaves Travis with plenty of time to meet a beautiful stranger and enjoy paradise on an isolated Pacific beach...

Nothing remains quite the same.

Suddenly reality explodes in a nightmare of discovery and tragedy. Travis is must face anger and betrayal, love and loss--that will change his whole way of looking at the world...forever.

About this title

About the Author:

Will Hobbs is the award-winning author of nineteen novels, including Far North, Crossing the Wire, and Take Me to the River.

Never Say Die began with the author's eleven-day raft trip in 2003 down the Firth River on the north slope of Canada's Yukon Territory. Ever since, Will has been closely following what scientists and Native hunters are reporting about climate change in the Arctic. When the first grolar bear turned up in the Canadian Arctic, he began to imagine one in a story set on the Firth River.

A graduate of Stanford University, Will lives with his wife, Jean, in Durango, Colorado.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 6-9 Travis, a selfish and obnoxious teen, his 14-year-old sister Jennifer, and their 9-year-old brother Teddy are all taken by their mother to a resort town in Mexico for a vacation. Mom, an unhappy wife contemplating a di vorce, is having an affair. Teddy's ob session with the endangered sea turtles leads him to discover a factory where the animals are being slaughtered. Ted dy is outraged by this injustice and fi nally tries to free some of the turtles on his ownan effort which leads to his death. Travis and his mother are impli cated in the death because neither was around to supervise Teddy. In the end, Travis tells his grieving mother that he is sure that Jennifer and Dad will for give the two of them for their neglect of Teddy, but Hobbs does little to con vince readers that they actually will or even that they should forgive them. This is the stuff of which soap operas are made, although even soap operas have their lighter moments. This novel is overflowing with unpleasant stereo types of Mexico (harrowing cab rides, inefficient hotel clerks, and lecherous locals), and one is hard pressed to find sympathy for any of the characters. Kathryn Weisman, Willowbrook School, Glenview, Ill.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Pan Childrens
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0330308947
• ISBN 13: 9780330308946
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176