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1) Peak
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
Author
Publisher
Little Brown & Co
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"A thrilling tale of high-altitude death and survival set on the snowy summits of Mount Everest, from the bestselling author of The Terror It's 1924 and the race to summit the world's highest mountain has been brought to a terrified pause by the shockingdisappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine high on the shoulder of Mt. Everest. By the following year, three climbers -- a British poet and veteran of the Great War, a young French Chamonix guide,...
4) The Ascent
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An "adventure story of man against the elements with man being the most dangerous element of all" by the award-winning author of Bone White ( Publishers Weekly ). Six months after he almost died in a caving accident, sculptor Tim Overleigh spends his time crutching his broken body from bar to bar in downtown Annapolis. He has told no one that it was his dead wife, Hannah, who helped him survive--and that he's still seeing her... But a chance meeting...
5) Sold
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
8) Go home
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a world beset by anger and fear, what does it mean to protect one's home and family? Olive and Gabe -- her older brother's best friend -- are deeply in love. They want nothing more than to make a home and family together, especially after the overdose death of Olive's brother, Chris. It won't be easy. Gabe works three jobs, and Olive still needs to finish high school, but their future together feels certain and right. But when Samir Paudel moves...
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