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2) The contest
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Everest volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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A contest decides the four teenagers who get to accompany a group of professional climbers as they try to scale the highest mountain in the world, Mt. Everest.
3) The summit
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Series
Everest volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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The final book in a trilogy about four teenagers who have been selected to accompany a group of professional climbers as they try to scale the highest mountain in the world, Mt. Everest.
4) The Climb
Author
Series
Everest volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
A thrilling adventure trilogy from Gordon Korman that follows a group of young climbers to the top of Mt. Everest!
The height of danger.Everest. The ultimate climb. The greatest of risks.Four kids are on a quest to reach the top-and none of them are among the four anyone expected to be there when Summit Athletic started the contest to bring the youngest team of climbers to the peak. Their ascent is not easy. The weather is harsh, and the competition...
5) Everest
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Seven Summits leads young readers on a captivating tour of each continents highest mountain. Each book in the series teaches geography skills and reveals fascinating facts. Readers will learn how human activity modifies the physical environment and how culture influences peoples perceptions of places and regions. Colorful photographs, detailed maps, informative charts, and classroom activities highlight the features of each summit. Seven Summits is...
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English
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"After eight successful summits, Mount Everest guide Neil Quinn is confident he can handle anything the mountain throws his way. But then disaster strikes steps from the top, leaving him with a lot of questions and a very old swastika-embellished ice axe that should never have been so high on the mountain--not if Everest's meticulously documented history is accurate"--Dust jacket flap.
Mount Everest guide Neil Quinn is confident he can handle anything...
7) Mountains
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Carefully leveled text and vibrant photographs introduce early readers to mountains. Includes a map, infographics, an activity, glossary, and index."--
9) The next Everest: surviving the mountain's deadliest day and finding the resilience to climb again
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English
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"A dramatic account of the deadly avalanche on Everest-and a return to reach the summit. On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping them at nearly 20,000 feet. It was the largest earthquake in Nepal in eighty-one years and killed nearly 8,900 people. That day also became the deadliest in the history of Everest,...
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English
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". . . A young American discovers he may be the heir to the estate of an English WWI officer and alpinist, left unclaimed for nearly 80 years, which launches him on a quest across Europe to uncover the true story of the officer's love affair with the woman who may or may not be his great-grandmother"--
"In this mesmerizing debut, a young American discovers he may be heir to the unclaimed estate of an English World War I officer, which launches him...
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