The River Runner
A BOY, A RIVER, AND A TRAPLINEBy Shain Haggadone
Length4h 19m
About this audiobook
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.
Audiobook details
GenreAction and Adventure, Young Adult
Length4 hrs 19 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 20, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1TITLE
14The Weight of the Steel
2Prologue: The Book That Opened the River
15The One That Got Away
3The Ghost of the Tittabawassee
16The Theft
4Preseason Scouting
17A Good Haul
5Summer: The Michigan Trappers Association Convention
18The River's Challenge
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6A Quiet Kid in a Loud World
19Storm on the Horizon
7The Gear List
20The Fur Shed
8Dirt Hole Lessons
21Winter Holds
9Pocket Sets and Still Water
22Spring Beaver
10Blind Sets
23Respect Earned in Silence
11Dream Sequence: Jesse, the Young Mountain Man
24The Run
12Midnight Dye on the Tittabawassee
25Back to School
13The Trapline Begins
26Epilogue: A Line of Influence
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