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(0)Roland Smith
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace/Gulliver
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Captain Meriwether Lewis's dog Seaman describes his experiences as he accompanies his master on the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore the uncharted western wilderness.
2) Peak
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2007
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.
3) Ascent
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
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) Descent
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Mountain-climbing prodigy Peak Marcello faces his toughest challenge yet as he descends into Tibet and goes head-to-head with an old enemy"-- Provided by publisher.
5) The edge
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
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.
6) Beneath
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
What waits Beneath? Pat O'Toole has always idolized his older brother, Coop. He's even helped Coop with some of his crazier plans -- such as risking his life to help his big brother dig a tunnel underneath their neighborhood in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Coop is . . . different. He doesn't talk on the phone, doesn't use email, and doesn't have friends. He's never really cared for anything but the thrill of being underground and Pat. So it's no...
7) Jack's run
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2007, c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped by drug czar Alonzo Asnar and held hostage in Argentina, Jack and his sister Joanne attempt a daring escape while their parents, aided by some old friends, set out to rescue them.
8) Above
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Pat O'Toole, his brother Coop, and their new companion, Kate, have narrowly escaped the cultlike community below New York City but must try to stop the cult's leader, Kate's grandfather.
9) Zach's lie
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Jack Osborne is befriended by his school's custodian and a Basque girl, he begins to adjust to his family's sudden move to Elko, Nevada after entering the Witness Security Program, but the drug cartel against which his father will testify is determined to track them down.
10) Sasquatch
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Dylan follows his father into the woods on the slopes of Mount St. Helens, which is on the brink of another eruption, in an attempt to protect the resident Sasquatch from ruthless hunters.