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 Wihtiko 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.

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards. It was recognised by the Junior Library Guild. It was recognised in the Best Bets category by the Ontario Library Association Awards. It also was recognised by the Best Books for Kids & Teens. It was recognised by the Snow Willow Award. Also it was recognised in the Red Maple - Fiction category by the Ontario Library Association Forest of Reading Awards. It was recognised by the White Raven Award. It was recognised in the Fiction category by the Rocky Mountain Book Award. It was recognised by the YA Sunburst Award.

There are 256 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Pajama Press .

Karen Bass is a multi-award-winning author of novels for young adult readers. Graffiti Knight won the CLA Young Adult Book Award, the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, the R. Ross Annett Award for Children's Literature, and the CAA Exporting Alberta Award. Formerly the library manager in Hythe, Alberta, Karen now lives and writes in Hamilton, Ontario.