Brad Klein, 16, has just lost his best friend in a tragic snowmobile accident in this young adult book about moving, making friends, and coping with grief and loss.

Just when Brad Klein thinks life couldn’t get any worse...it does. The small town his family moved to is horrible. Who ever heard of things like curfews for snowmobiles being on the street? Or that the police would chase you for being a few minutes late?

And the other kids at his new high school? While Chickowski and Hollander might be snowmobilers, they’re the biggest jerks he’s ever met. They seem to want just one thing--to provoke him into racing his sled. If only Jodie Reed didn’t switch from hot to cold at everything he said, she could be the one person he’d like to get to know.

Not that she could ever replace Riley. Riley, his best friend since Junior High. Every time he hears a train whistle he can still see Riley driving his old snowmobile right into the oncoming train. Two months later, Brad still can’t cope with his guilt about what they’d been doing before the accident. He can’t tell anyone. He can only deal with his grief and loss by being angry at everyone and everything.

Judges at the Saskatchewan Book Awards said, “The sixteen-year-old protagonist in Snowmobile Challenge … looks deeply into himself after his best friend dies in a snowmobile accident. Brad Klein comes to understand the difference between proving oneself in a race and proving oneself in life.