Nominated for the 2019 Red Maple Fiction Award When Tristans dad disappears, he puts his tracking skills to the test to find him but will Tristans talents save him if it turns out to be a trap? Thanks to his dads coaching, sixteen-year-old Tristan is one of the best climbers and trackers in his small town. He can read footprints and bushes like theyre security-camera footage, and fearlessly descend rock faces and waterfalls. But when his father disappears, leaving his mother too grief-stricken to function, the young canyoneers life goes into freefall. Left in the hands of a well-meaning but incompetent uncle and a space-cadet housekeeper, Tristan finds life a struggle no matter how hard he works. When he nears the end of his rope at home, the teen decides to set off into Swallow Canyon in search of his father only to realize that someone may be out to get him. Now the question is whos stalking whom, and are Tristans skills up to the dangerous game playing out in the deep, shadowy canyon?

 

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards

There are 184 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2017 by Dundurn Group Ltd .

Pam Withers is an award-winning author of over a dozen teen adventure novels, including Tracker's Canyon and Andreo's Race , and two nonfiction books. Pam lives in Vancouver.