Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025
Will Hobbs

Will Hobbs’s Followers (170)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo

Will Hobbs


Born
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The United States
August 22, 1947

Website

Genre
Young Adult, Outdoors & Nature

Influences
Treasure Island


WILL HOBBS is the author of seventeen novels for upper elementary, middle school and young adult readers, as well as two picture book stories. Seven of his novels, Bearstone, Downriver, The Big Wander, Beardance, Far North, The Maze, and Jason's Gold, were named Best Books for Young Adults by the American Library Association. ALA also named Far North and Downriver to their list of the 100 Best Young Adult Books of the Twentieth Centrury. Ghost Canoe received the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1998 for Best Young Adult Mystery.

In outdoor stories that appeal to both boys and girls, Hobbs has readers discovering wild places, sharing adventures with people from varied backgrounds, and exploring how to make important choices in their own lives. A gra ...more

Combine Editions

Average rating: 3.62 · 22,559 ratings · 2,555 reviews · 27 distinct works • Similar authors
Bearstone: With Related Rea...
3.19 avg rating — 5,260 ratings — 3 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Crossing the Wire
3.83 avg rating — 2,746 ratings — published 2006 — 14 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Far North
3.96 avg rating — 1,918 ratings — published 1996 — 23 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Downriver
3.73 avg rating — 2,009 ratings — published 1991 — 17 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Jason's Gold
3.56 avg rating — 1,696 ratings — published 1999 — 29 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Never Say Die
3.79 avg rating — 1,048 ratings — published 2013 — 12 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Go Big or Go Home
3.56 avg rating — 1,041 ratings — published 2008 — 15 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
The Maze
3.71 avg rating — 983 ratings — published 1998 — 14 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Take Me to the River
3.70 avg rating — 814 ratings — published 2010 — 17 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Bearstone
3.55 avg rating — 680 ratings — published 1989 — 37 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
More books by Will Hobbs…

Series by Will Hobbs

Downriver River Thunder
(2 books)
by
3.76 avg rating — 2,579 ratings

Jason's Gold Down the Yukon
(2 books)
by
3.64 avg rating — 2,084 ratings

Bearstone Beardance
(2 books)
by
3.62 avg rating — 938 ratings

Quotes by Will Hobbs  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“Old Japanese saying, live scorpion in pants makes life interesting.”
― Will Hobbs, Downriver
14 likes
Like

“Dreams aren't practical, but we can't live without them.”
― Will Hobbs, Beardance
5 likes
Like

“If I could interview that horse, Walter mused, I’d know the boy a whole lot better.”
― Will Hobbs, Bearstone
1 likes
Like

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics posts views last activity  
All Ears Audiobooks: Young Adult Books for Adults 60 97 Apr 11, 2010 08:23PM  
Room 107, Period 6: Three Books for the Holidays 30 46 Nov 24, 2010 01:05PM  
The Seasonal Read...: This topic has been closed to new comments. Fall Challenge 2011 Completed Tasks - DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS IN THIS TOPIC! 2251 792 Nov 30, 2011 09:05PM  
Around the World ...: South Dakota 3 139 Jul 22, 2013 07:14PM  
What's the Name o...: Childen visit Ghost Island, Natives, Nathanial? 7 36 Apr 26, 2014 04:42PM  
Around the World ...: Utah 9 254 Jun 11, 2015 06:05PM  
Mount TBR 2015: Ellinor's Next Climb 13 10 Jul 14, 2015 10:47AM  
Ms. Fuhrman's 201...: Post your literature circle recommendation here 87 119 May 10, 2017 08:04PM  
Apocalypse Whenever: Apocalypse at the Ends of the earth 195 278 Aug 26, 2017 01:36AM  


Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Will to Goodreads.