For my Independent Novel I started reading Leaving Protection, by Will Hobbs. It is about a boy that is from Port Protection, Alaska and gets on a plane and goes to Craig Alaska looking to get hired on a fishing boat for the King Salmon season that is about to start. He winds up hearing about this one boat that he is interested in talking to the owner. When he gets to the boat he finds the captain not on the boat and so he makes his way onto the boat and starts looking around. The boy finds something very interesting and he is not sure what it is. By this time the captain now comes back and finds him there. At first he is mad but then offers the boy a job on his boat.

I chose this book because I love fishing and I love Alaska and if I ever had the chance I think I would move there. So far my impression on the book is very well. I really like it so far and I am just getting to the point that they start catching fish. I am definitely looking forward to reading the rest of this book.