It takes place in El Paso Texas, a dry and hot area near canyons.
Brennan Cole, an older boy in highschool goes camping in the canyons and finds a skull and takes it home. The skull is getting to Brennan and is bothering him so he decides to do something about it and goes to Mr. Homesley, his biology teacher, for help.
Brennan Cole, goes camping in the canyons with his mother and a guy that she is dating with kids from his church youth group. While Brennan goes to sleep he finds a skull in the dirt. He wrapped it up and put it in his bag to take home.
Once he takes it home, it starts to get to Brennan and messes with how he sleeps and acts. He finally makes a decision to get help so he goes to his biology teacher, Mr. Homesley. When he learns more about the skull, his mother had already found the skull and it was too late. Brennan runs to Dog Canyon to put the skull back but once he got there, his mother and police were already looking for him.
I did not like the book “Canyons” much. For me, it was too predictable and I could guess what was coming next. I felt that it was a little boring because of it being predictable and that it did not have me on the edge of my seat the whole time. I would recommend this book to others. It is a good book and I’m sure others would like it even though I did not.