Surviving Bear Island (Move Books 2015) has been chosen as the Alaska Reads book for 2022.
The official Press Release is below.
Paul Greci is the author of The Wild Lands (Macmillan 2019) and Surviving Bear Island (Move Books 2015), a 2015 Junior Library Guild Selection and a 2016 Scholastic Reading Club Selection, Hostile Territory (Macmillan 2020), an Anchorage Daily News Best Book of 2020, and Follow the River (Move Books 2021), a 2021 Junior Library Guild Selection. You can order all of Paul’s books here.
Hi Paul – The Wild Lands is wonderful! An instant classic, I’d say. Recently finished reading it (after buying a copy at the AkLA gathering where we chatted a bit) and love it. So inspiring and solid in its values, fun to read, hard to put down, spot-on in presenting Interior Alaska (even post-destruction) and very well-written too. Great characters and dialogue! Keep up the fine work! So glad you’re doing Alaska Reads. Best wishes.
Jean Anderson, Fairbanks
Thanks, Jean. It was great seeing you and I’m glad you enjoyed The Wild Lands. Coming from an Alaskan writer, that means a lot to me.