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2000s: Rachel finds herself in the Yukon Mountains
Juggling Fire
What you need to know before your trail
Rachel’s idyllic existence with her family in the remote mountain passes of northern Yukon was shattered by her father’s depression, the family’s relocation to “town” and her father’s subsequent disappearance. Obsessed with understanding why her father never returned, Rachel hikes with her dog across mountain passes and along valleys to her childhood home. As she walks, she distracts herself from her anxiety by reinventing fairy tales remembered from her childhood. As the days pass, the imaginary quest begins to echo her own journey as she confronts danger, faces loneliness and unearths the truth about her father.
Travel Guide
Yukon, Canada
Yukon
This book was heavily inspired by the Dempster Mountains
16-year-old Rachel’s father left his family years earlier and never came back. Her mother says her father died out in the mountains, in the Yukon valleys, but Rachel doesn’t believe her and wants to know what really happened to him.
Taking only her dog, food, and her wits , she sets out and tries to retrace his steps but she will have to get over many obstacles including wild bears, and the landscape around her if she is ever going to succeed.
The dog Brooks is half bloodhouse and half malmute/Newfoundland Cross but he can “howl like a husky and bay like a hunting dog”
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Juggling Fire
Destination : Yukon Author/Guide: Joanne Bell
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