01748cam a2200277 i 4500 278089906 TxAuBib 20161110120000.0 151213s2016||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9781683241744 hardcover 1683241746 hardcover TxAuBib rda Hyde, Catherine Ryan. Leaving Blythe River [Large Print] / Catherine Ryan Hyde. Seattle : Lake Union Publishing, [2016] 424 pages (large print) ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Seventeen-year-old Ethan Underwood is totally unprepared to search for his father in the Blythe River National Wilderness. Not only is he small, scrawny, and skittish but he s barely speaking to the man after a traumatic betrayal. Yet when his father vanishes from their remote cabin and rangers abandon the rescue mission, suddenly it s up to Ethan to keep looking. Angry or not, he s his father s only hope. With the help of three locals a fearless seventy-year-old widow, a pack guide, and a former actor with limited outdoor skills he heads into the wild. The days that follow transform Ethan s world. Hail, punishing sun, swollen rapids, and exhausting pain leave him wondering if he s been fooled yet again: Is his father out here at all? As the situation grows increasingly dire, Ethan realizes this quest has become about more than finding his dad. 20161110. Fathers and sons Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. Wilderness survival Fiction. BSBPL