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Book Review of Williwaw!

Williwaw!
Williwaw!
Author: Tom Bodett
Genres: Children's Books, Teen & Young Adult
Book Type: Paperback
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Ivan and September have two rules to obey while their fisherman father is delayed at sea: stay off the bay and don't hook up their video game to the radio batteries. But when Ivan goes against his father's orders, he breaks the shortwave radios -- the one link to the outside world from their remote Alaskan home. Their only choice is to get the radios fixed before their father finds out. And that means sneaking back and forth across moody Bag Bay in their tiny boat.

But autumn is an unpredictable season in ALaska, when clear skies can give way to sudden violent storms. And heading their way is the kind they fear most: a williwaw!