The Maze

by Will Hobbs

Book Overview

Just fourteen, Rick Walder is alone, on the run, and desperate. Stowing away in the back of a truck, he suddenly finds himself at a dead end, out in the middle of nowhere. The Maze. In this surreal landscape of stark redrock spires and deep sandstone canyons, Rick stumbles into the remote camp of Lon Perigrino, a bird biologist who is realeasing fledgling California condors back into the wild. Intriqued by the endangered condors and the strange bearded...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 038072913X
• ISBN13: 9780380729135
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

I'm amazed over The Maze!

Will Hobbs does and excellent job in writing the book, The Maze. He fully explains everything and is very detailed. It is an extremely interesting adventure story with a superb storyline. The fiction in this book makes you think it actually happened. Overall, I think it was one of the best books that I have read since I learned to read! It could easily be yours too. In this book, a 14 year old boy named Rick Walter is convicted of a small crime. He has to go to a Juvenile Prison out in the middle of a desert. He is scared because he feels that someone is going to hurt or even kill him so he escapes in the middle of the night. As he keeps running, there is nothing until a gas station appears gracefully in his sight. Moments later he hops into the bed of a pick-up and experiences a long drive into the Maze, a very large grouping of canyons. Lon was the driver of the truck and catches Rick, but after a while they become very good friends. In Rick's stay, he and Lon do many adventurous things like hang gliding. Also, they have to cheat death from many horrifying things. Will they survive? Read it and find out!

The Maze

White Heath Sixth Grade The Maze by Will Hobbs The Maze is a new Trivia Pie Adventure book. It's also a Rebecca Caudal for 2001. This was an adventure book because the main character faces a life and death situation. Rick and Lon Perigrino are in way over their heads. A gas station owner, his side kick, and his dog can do more damage than presumed and were underestimated. You can tell that this book is an adventure because within the first 50 pages Rick,a fourteen year old foster kid, goes to a juvenile prison escapes from it, and hitchhikes/ stows away all the way from Las Vegas to Utah, and steals a truck. That's only in the first 50. Rick encounters an old man who was kind of like himself when he was a kid. He was a foster, too. They were so much alike that Rick actually enjoyed talking to the old man who was nicknamed Lon Perigrino. They talked, but not so much chit-chat that they canceled out its adventure theme. See, Lon lived in Canyonlands National Park where they where releasing American Condors. The only time they really talked was when they were watching for the condor's next move. Another thing that the two had in common is that they both had flying dreams. These dreams lead to Lon telling Rick about hang gliding, and mentioned that he had a hang glider. The next thing Rick knew he was addicted to gliding. He had to hang glide. Lon finally asked Rick if he wanted to help drive him up to the cliff and watch him hang glide. Rick was very happy to accept. After a while Rick rode with Lon, and then Rick was hang gliding on his own. The other thing that makes this book an adventure book was because it had bad guys. Let's face it, every adventure story's gotta have a bad guy or two, somehow or another. There's not that many more ways to have a main character face a life or death situation. The bad guys in this story were Nuke Carlile, his pit bull, Jasper, and his sidekick, Gunderson....This book is a true adventure story at heart. It has all those qualities of an adventure, and some others, too. I really enjoyed the action in this book and it kept me on the edge of my seat. All in all it's a action packed book.

Great Great Book

My mom bought this book for me at a book fair at her work. I'm not sure why, but i'm glad. When i first got it I threw it on my bookshelf and never gave it a second glance, I didn't even read the back. But I was drawn to it, after i'd read everything else in my house two times over. Once I started reading it I couldn't put it down. I am happy to say that this is my favorite book. I reccommend it to all young adults, even if it takes time....READ IT!

Maze

Will Hobbs really out did himself this time. My 8yr old son and I have been reading all of Hobbs' books and this one has to be our favorite. Your heart really goes out to Rick and all he has been through. Meeting Lon was such a wonderful thing to happen to Rick. I think Lon really needed Rick as well. Since finishing The Maze my son has become much more interested in condors, so much so that he is trying to get his den to become "The Condor" patrol once they move to Weblos. Thank you Will Hobbs for once again touching us in your books.

Lots of action, plus good characters

This book kept my interest all the way through, mostly because I liked the character Rick and saw how unfairly everyone had treated him. Plus, you learn a lot about condors and hang gliding when Rick solves a mystery involving two vicious intruders. I really liked the suspense and all the action.