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The River Runner: A Boy, a River, and a Trapline
Paperback
Series: River Runner, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 25 2026
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The River Runner is a coming-of-age novel about a solitary high school boy who finds direction, discipline, and belonging not through people, but through the wild. Abandoned early by distracted parents and drifting through school unseen, Jesse Calloway stumbles upon an old trapping book in his local library. That discovery ignites a quiet obsession. What begins as curiosity becomes a calling.
Through a single trapping season along a remote river, Jesse learns self-reliance, restraint, and respect for life. He faces cold, injury, storms, and moral choices that force him to grow faster than his peers. By winter's end, Jesse returns to town changed, no longer invisible, no longer drifting, but grounded by hard-earned knowledge and an inner code shaped by the land itself.
The novel traces a clear arc: discovery, trial, and return. The boy who leaves town seeking solitude comes back with purpose.
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