PamSOCIALMEDIAMarch2020 Cropped PAM WITHERS writes award-winning, best-selling young-adult outdoor sports and adventure books – which are particularly popular with boys. They’re riveting; so is their author as a speaker. What else would you expect of a former journalist and editor who was also an outdoor guide?

She’s a three-time Ontario Library Association Red Maple Award nominee (for Stowaway, Tracker’s Canyon, and First Descent), and a Silver Nautilus Book Awards winner for The Parkour Club and First Descent. For other awards and nominations, check out pamwithers.com/bio/

Pam is also founder of YAdudebooks, a not-for-profit book-reviews and author-interviews website for educators and parents of middle-grade and young-adult boys, and for teens themselves.

Publishers: Great Plains Press (Cave-In), Dundurn Press (Drone Chase, Stowaway, Trackers’ Canyon), Tundra Books (Andreo’s Race, First Descent), Orca Books (Camp Wild, Breathless, Daredevils Club, Bungee Jump), Whitecap Books/Fitzhenry & Whiteside (10-book Xtreme series), Viva Editions (Jump-Starting Boys) and Menasha Ridge Press (Going Vertical). All 23 books available on Amazon, Indigo or at bookstores on request.

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Cave-In

Young Adult Fiction from Pam Withers

Who can a teen trust when business and political shenanigans overshadow the imminent danger of a sinkhole disaster?

Hudson Greer and his caving partner, Jett, are determined to become teen legends who discover a long-sought passageway that connects two giant cave systems in their little mountain town. But they’re haunted by the history of a giant sinkhole that opened up and swallowed the town’s fully-packed church, steeple and all. Dozens were killed, including Hudson’s grandfather. Hudson knows it’s in danger of happening again; he just doesn’t know when or where.

Can his caving instincts and science knowledge predict or prevent the next disaster? Are the shoddy logging practices of the town’s main employer tempting fate? And who’s on whose side when business and political shenanigans mix with evaded environmental codes?

Nothing less than the lives of the townspeople is at stake — and it’s up to Hudson to separate myth from fact, and get key players working together, before it’s too late.

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Mountain Runaways

Young Adult Fiction from Pam Withers

Will their wilderness skills be enough to survive the dangerous Rocky Mountains?

First a Canadian Rockies avalanche kills their parents. Then Children’s Services threatens to separate them. That’s when the three Gunnarsson kids decide to run away into the mountains and fend for themselves until the oldest turns eighteen and becomes their legal guardian. Not many would dare. But Jon, Korka and Aron’s parents ran a survival school.
Turns out their plan is full of holes. When food and equipment go missing and illness and injury strike, things get scary. They’re even less prepared for encounters with dangerous animals and a sketchy woods dweller. On top of that, grief, cold, hunger and sibling infighting threaten to tear them apart, while the search parties are closing in on them. Do Jon, Korka and Aron really have what it takes to survive?

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DRONE CHASE

Young Adult Fiction from Pam Withers

Ray will need every ounce of his drone skills and outdoor smarts to recover his missing bear cub before poachers get to it first.

When his orphan bear cub goes missing, sixteen-year-old drone enthusiast Ray McLellan decides to use his airborne spying skills to find it. Little does he know that a bear-poaching gang operating in the surrounding forest has drones too — and a cold welcome for those who would attempt to take them down.

As a New York City kid recently forced to move to the Great Bear Rainforest by his parents, what Ray doesn’t have is a lifetime of outdoor instincts, or familiarity with the valley and its wildlife. That makes him very different from his grumpy grandfather, who — like his new school friends — berate his city-kid uselessness at every opportunity. Can Ray use his drones and drone smarts to prove himself, find his cub, and expose what’s going on in the woods?

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The Parkour Club

Young Adult Fiction from Pam Withers and Arooj Hayat

Not everyone in the parkour club is who they seem. And for some, the question is: How fast do you have to run to escape the past?

Parkour enthusiast Bronte Miller is back from a year in Alexandria, Egypt, where her father was a war correspondent. It means she misses her secret Egyptian boyfriend and is bored in her desert hometown in Washington state. That is, until Yemeni refugee Karam Saif shows up, trying awkwardly to fit into American high school life.

“I can help him with that,” she thinks. Handsome, attentive and an ace parkour athlete, Karam seems the perfect antidote to her impossible home situation and not-happening readjustment to American life. Together, they and the Parkour Club party-it-up around town and revel in learning challenging new parkour moves. But both have Middle Eastern secrets that draw them ever closer to danger, and someone they can’t identify is meddling with their lives. Can they outrun the past, or join forces and save each other?

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NEWS

The Parkour Club by Pam Withers and Arooj Hayat just won an international Nautilus Book Awards silver for YA! Available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/s?k=the+parkour+club. Promotes cross-cultural understanding through an adventure story/thriller. Book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGhsJiMDiU8

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