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1) Peak
Author
Series
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
2) The edge
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
238 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to participate in an "International Peace Ascent" in the Hindu Kush, with a team made up of under-eighteen-year-old climbers from around the world--but from the first something seems wrong, so when the group is attacked, and most of the climbers are either killed or kidnapped, Peak finds himself caught up in a struggle to survive, shadowed by the Shen, a mysterious snow leopard.
3) Ascent
Author
Series
Peak Marcello adventure volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to climb Hkakabo Razi, one of the most isolated mountains in the world, but getting there involves a four-week trek through a tropical rainforest that is rife with hazards, which turns out to be more dangerous than summiting the mountain itself.
4) The switch
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Four months after the power went out and his father went missing, Henry travels alone to find his father through the lawless world of the Switch, where he learns just how far people will go to survive"--
5) Thunder cave
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c1995
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
250 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Determined, after his mother's accidental death, to foil his stepfather's plans for his future, fourteen-year-old Jacob travels alone to Africa in search of his father, a biologist studying elephants in a remote area of Kenya.