TAKE ME TO THE RIVER

Dylan, a teen from North Carolina, couldn’t be more excited about a week of canoeing and rafting on the Rio Grande with his cousin from Texas. What starts as a fun trip turns into a lot more as a raging river tests their survival skills. Will Hobbs’s keen knowledge of taking on a river is paired with Steven Boyer’s fine narration. Boyer differentiates the boys slightly but effectively. A Mexican boy and a man the teens encounter are as different as can be. Boyer maneuvers through these four main characters as deftly as the teens paddle through the rushing rapids. M.B. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine [Published: JUNE 2011]