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Saving Bigfoot Valley: A Bigfoot Book for Boys 9-12 Kindle Edition

by Spike Brown (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
From the bestselling author SD Brown in the I Escaped Series (I Escaped the California Camp Fire—I Escaped Gold Rush Fever—I Escaped the Killer Bees).

Saving Bigfoot Valley is a Bigfoot-coming-of-age tale. It’s an adventure mystery with lots of fun, action, and a dose of age-appropriate humor for kids 9-12.

What readers have to say:
* A delightful story of friendship and growing up.
* . . . a relatable teen boy protagonist.”
* . . . an easy and fast-paced read.”
* The book is a rollercoaster of fun, and in true coming-of-age fashion, Aarth evolves from an awkward kid to a quick-witted save-the-day hero.
*It has humor, adventure, pathos and some wonderful observations of the human condition that are perfect for the pre-teen audience it is intended for . . . Highly recommended . . .

The Story:
Aarth is a bigfoot teen.He's heard about human bigfoot hunters. He knows they are dangerous which is why he’s never been allowed to leave Bigfoot Valley. But when a part of the valley’s cloaking device is stolen, he feels responsible. Why? Because Aarth realizes it’s his fault. If he’d just followed the rules, it wouldn’t have happened. Now his community is in peril.

There’s only one way to make things right. Find the human kid who stole the cloaking device and bring it back. It’ll be risky to the leave the world he knows but there’s no other choice.
Besides. What could wrong?

A must read for kids who love stories about bigfoot.

A middle grade adventure for kids 9-12
Family friendly
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ESCAPE TO MOLOKAI
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Arth is a Bigfoot tween.

Something's wrong in Bigfoot Valley.
It's a secret location, but it won't be secret for long.
Not unless Arrth can save the day.

It's a big task for a young Sasquatch.
He's never left the Northern California redwood valley by himself.

He's heard of Bigfoot hunters and trackers. He knows the dangers of going outside.
He has a real shock when he meets his first skin-face.

Even though he's tempted to go home, he knows he must save his family and all the Bigfoots who are depending on him.
Will Arrth succeed?

Dive into this hair-raising mystery adventure of a boy who's not quite a boy--or a monster who's not quite a monster.
You'll never look at Bigfoot the same.

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For fans of The Imaginary Veterinary Series, the Loch Ness monster, the Yeti and other unsolved mysteries.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00H6VZ4PW
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ ANY TIME BOOKS (January 14, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 14, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 763 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 194 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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S.D. Brown taught elementary, middle grade, high school, and junior college for over twenty years—on three continents and in seven schools. She continues to present workshops and is the owner-curator of the largest, privately owned gem and mineral museum in California. When she’s not working with rocks, she’s working on manuscripts, traveling, gardening, painting, or doing the dishes.

If you want to know more go to sdbrownbooks.

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  • Jeff Chapman
    5.0 out of 5 stars Delightful story of friendship and growing up
    Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2022
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    Arth is a young bigfoot on the verge of the changes to become an adult. Like all youngsters eager to grow up, he chafes under the restrictions that his parents place on him. What Arth lacks in wisdom and patience, he makes up for with courage and enthusiasm. If he possessed more of the former, he would need less of the latter.

    The bigfoot community lives within a valley protected from the skin-faces (humans) by a cloaking mechanism. While investigating the outer limits of the bigfoot territory, Arth sees a skin-face about to shoot a rabbit. Arth decides impulsively to save the rabbit. Breaking every rule, he bursts through the cloaking shield and assaults the skin-face, saving the rabbit. To escape the skin-face who turns his gun on Arth, he throws a nearby chunk of granite at the skin-face as Arth makes his escape back into bigfoot territory.

    Arth begins to loose his fur which he learns from his mother is a sign that he is changing from a cub to an adult. And there is now talk about Arth going on his "night-out," a ritual that is part of the transition to adulthood. Arth's worries about growing up take a backseat when the cloaking field starts to fail. Arth learns that the rock he threw at the skin-face is part of the cloaking field and without it, the field will fail within a few days and force the community to relocate.

    Arth decides he must fix the problem that he has created by retrieving the rock. All his fur has fallen out. He now looks like a skin-face. He convinces the bigfoot in charge of technology to assist him. Arth leaves the valley for the first time and ventures into the skin-face world. He has his courage and enthusiasm but very little knowledge of where he's going and very little time to complete his mission.

    Saving Bigfoot Valley is a delightful story of growing up and friendship. There are many comic moments as we see human society from the eyes of an outsider. If you enjoy a good adventure tale in which every well-laid plan seems to go horribly awry, you will love this story.
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  • Stjepan Varesevac Cobets
    4.0 out of 5 stars I would recommend the book to fans of YA science fiction
    Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2022
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    My rating 3.9

    Book "Saving Bigfoot Valley" by S.D. Brown is a YA fun story about young Bigfoot Arrth and his adventures beyond the invisible boundaries of the valley where Bigfoot lives.

    The story follows young Bigfoot Arrth, who, due to his mistake, threatens the entire Hidden Valley where the Bigfoot colony lives. Since he is in his youthful phase, he loses his fur to save the valley. He decides to go to where people live to restore the stone he created invisibly protects the community. Since he has a few days, it will be a big task and an adventure that will change his life.

    I would recommend the book to fans of YA science fiction associated with the legend of Bigfoot.
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  • MARK J ENGELS
    3.0 out of 5 stars Sasquatch-styled coming-of-age tale with enjoyable and relatable teen boy protagonist
    Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2019
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    “…as exciting as watching worm snot drip off a blade of grass…” From the very first line, our author tells us exactly what sort of book this is going to be. It features a coming-of-age Sasquatch boy whose trials, tribulations and triumphs tweens and teens will find relatable (along with their parents.) And whose comedic bumbling readers of all ages will surely find endearing. The “Night Out” concept reminded me strongly of an abbreviate version of an Amish community’s Rumspringa, or at least popular media portrayals of same. It added an interesting element to the requisite awkwardness and tomfoolery, common to teenagers regardless of their species it would seem. All amplified, of course, by our young hero finding himself a stranger in a strange land besides when he leaves the protection of his clan’s sheltered valley in order to help save it. The fact his reckless actions put his home and clansmen in peril in the first place, though…

    The book could well have done with another copyediting pass or two, what with enough duplicated lines and formatting errors to draw attention to themselves. There were also places where pronouns get clumsy—in a room in which a man and a boy are interacting with little more stage direction than “he this” and “he that,” this reader found it hard to process just who was doing what.

    This reader also struggled through many of the conflict points in the book, seeming to be resolved a little too easily, a little too simplistically, a little too conveniently. Any tension the first few instances might have held withered away by the book’s middle, knowing that some Deus Ex sort of resolution would surely deliver our protagonist from whatever predicament he faced. Like how a man stepping forward with an offer to help on his quest becomes quite familiar indeed. And how the young woman he takes into his confidence becomes intrigued and curious by who and what he is, rather than freaking out like a reader—including this one—might expect her to baring additional details about her character.

    The author drew many parallels between the Bigfoots society and ours, but some were completely unexpected and drew me out of the story—both just happen to have a “five cent” currency denomination? Readers might conclude Arrth could learn how to drive by watching the “skin faces” do it, but where would he have learned to pull over to the side of the road so as to permit a lights-and-sirens ambulance to pass?

    Reservations aside, an easy and fast-paced read which members of its target audience will surely enjoy.
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  • Jorju
    5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect!
    Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2016
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    Can't wait for my grandson to read this. He's just starting to ask questions about Bigfoot. Perfect!
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  • AF
    4.0 out of 5 stars The humorous tale of a nonconformist Bigfoot
    Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2019
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    Big Foot - hairy, ape-like creatures that dwell in the wilderness. From time to time, they leave mysterious footprints for us to find. Some even portray them as the missing link between humans and our savage ancestors. They are half or even less human. Wild. Dangerous.
    Man - intelligent and ... human.
    This book turns everything upside down, and everything is told in a humorous way. There is adventure, even some sort of tragedy and some interesting observations about human condition in general. This book is about Arrth, an almost centenarian young Big Foot, ready to become an adult. His transition is sped up by a half-comical, half- terrible chain of misadventures which throws him out of his calm and civilized village into the wilderness of the Skin-faces' world, their name for ... us.
    An enjoyable read.
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  • hoomy
    5.0 out of 5 stars I enjoy reading this suspense story to my young student
    Reviewed in Canada on May 6, 2016
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    I enjoy reading this suspense story to my young student. Good language, rich in developing vocabulary for youngsters, good pacing and description of action. I do appreciate the plot where it touches on the First Nations traditions, which in turn, inspires me to sensitize my student about the Aboriginal culture. That been said, I highly recommend this story.
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  • Fictionfan
    4.0 out of 5 stars A great twist on adolescent outsider-ness
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 9, 2022
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    An amusing tale of a teenage outsider trying to fit into a confusing world where everyone him seems to know what’s going on except him. We've all been there, so what's new? Simple, Aarth is a seventy-seven-and-a-half-year-old Bigfoot adolescent who has to find the kid who stole the cloaking device that conceals his tribe's home and get it back before the world discovers Bigfoot Valley. What could go wrong?

    Pretty much everything, it turns out.

    The book is a rollercoaster of fun, and in true coming-of-age fashion, Aarth evolves from awkward kid to quick-witted save-the-day hero. Well, if things would just work out the way they need to.

    There's the odd plot hole that I’m sure young readers aren’t going to quibble about, but overall it’s a great story, well done, Spike Brown.
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  • Escobar
    3.0 out of 5 stars Kidtastic
    Reviewed in Germany on August 21, 2020
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    (NB: obviously not written for this jaded audience, so take those 3 stars with a pinch of salt)

    Another indie book that landed in my lap, which I read in a single lazy morning/afternoon. The story, a kind of coming-of-age tale from the perspective of a juvenile cryptozoological being (a sasquatch), moves along at a steady clip, with each chapter being no longer than 3 or 4 pages - making the book ideal for reading aloud to a small audience, I reckon. The author builds the world well within the first few chapters and deftly introduces some sasquatch lore and even some technology ('vid-cubes', for example). I think it's important to note that it never feels like you're receiving an exposition dump, and it's simple to keep track of what's going on despite the otherworldly premise. I guess the outlandish names were a little hard to get a handle on at first, but I just pretended they were bit characters from the Mos Eisley Cantina. The use of the term 'Skin-face' to describe human beings is creepy as hell. Reminded me constantly of Ed Gein, which is probably not the intention but two thumbs up for that.

    I can imagine this being well received by precocious kids and maybe even non-native learners of English considering how easy it is to read.
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  • Audrey Driscoll
    4.0 out of 5 stars Fast-Paced Fun Adventure in Bigfoot Country
    Reviewed in Canada on May 14, 2020
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    This fast-paced book is about Arrth, a young bigfoot undergoing puberty, who makes a big mistake that puts his home valley in grave danger. Arrth determines to remedy his error, but has only a limited time to do so. His resolve takes him out of familiar forest surroundings into a community of skin-faces (that would be us humans). As the clock counts down on Bigfoot Valley, Arrth must deal with a flood of new experiences and people and one tense situation after another.
    I liked the internal logic of the story, such as the idea that when young bigfoots morph into adulthood, they lose their fur and for several months look just like skin-faces. And they have tech, quite a lot of it, including cloaking devices that hide their valley from prying eyes. A critical component of this system has been stolen, and Arrth has to recover it before Bigfoot Valley is revealed to humans. Mentions of plants and birds found in western North America give an authentic flavour to the setting. And bigfoot slang is kind of cool.
    As well as the race against the clock, the book offers an often hilarious view of dealing with the new and unfamiliar. Like clothing, for example. And a bully. And flirtatious girls. The situation gets grim as the time left to save the valley shortens. Arrth must call on his native ingenuity and the help of a trusted few to get the job done.
    This was a fun read. Arrth is a sympathetic character I just had to root for. Along with the fast pace and gripping plot, his story should be a fun read for kids and adults alike.
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  • Elara
    5.0 out of 5 stars Not the kind of Bigfoot story you would expect…
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 12, 2019
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    Arrth is a young Bigfoot, living in his high-tech nature preserve, concealed and protected from Skin-face sight by a holographic shield. Like most youngsters he is adventurous and takes risks that the adults find dangerous. But things become really dangerous when he breaks through the shield to save a rabbit from being killed by a flesh-eating Skin-face and the events that follow change things for Arrth and his community in drastic ways - and it’s all his fault! Armed with the kind of gadgets Q might bestow upon James Bond, Arrth sets out alone into the skin-face world to put things right.

    What I really liked:
    I loved this book. it was completely not what I expected it to be and in the best possible way. It has humour, adventure, pathos and some wonderful observations of the human condition that are perfect for the pre-teen audience it is intended for.
    The excellent tension building with the countdown reminders every chapter and events cleverly written so each new obstacle made perfect sense.

    What I struggled with:
    Character inconsistency. Aarth sometimes seemed a lot younger than we are told he is in the book- especially for an only child raised exclusively amongst adults and with only one companion of roughly his own age. Also his inability to grasp the oddities of our world seemed to be determined more by humour factor than anything else as sometimes he needed no explanation or was very quick to catch on.

    Overall:
    Highly recommended for it’s target audience age-group - but also for adults most of whom I think will really enjoy this! A clear and true 5 stars!
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