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1) Weird sports
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English
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"People across the globe love to play sports. But not all sports are as common as others. Dash into the world of weird sports, including everyday activities taken to the extreme, combined sports, and more"--
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Croquet is a genteel game, usually played on a summer afternoon on a tranquil green lawn. Extreme Croquet is a whole other story. That's what Meg Langslow and her new friends are playing on the several-acre farm of her new neighbor, a countryside studded with rocks, steep hills, and placid, seemingly immovable cows. While this society game can get quite warm, it hasn't reached the stage of actual homicide--at least not until Meg knocks her ball down...
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"In 10 thrilling real-life adventure stories, pioneering whitewater explorer Wick Walker examines what lured a generation of incredibly daring pioneers into some of Earth's most wondrous yet forbidding river canyons: below Victoria Falls on the Zambezi, the Great Bend of the Tsangpo in Tibet, Tiger Leaping Gorge on the Yangtze, the flanks of Mount Everest, and more Loaded with great moments and personal stories, Wick details what these adventurers...
4) The contest
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Everest volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
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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.
5) The summit
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Everest volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
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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.
6) The Climb
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Everest volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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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...
7) ATV cheat
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Teenage ATV riders Josh and Christyna find that someone has been sabotaging the trails, putting the safety of ATV racers and mountain bikers in jeopardy, and they need to find out who is responsible and catch the cheat before the next race.
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Avani Patel loves to skateboard, but there is no skate park in her town so she does not get to practice tricks often--but now that the idea is under consideration in the city council Avani and her friends set out to convince the skeptical politicians the town really needs one.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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In 1953, as two men summit Mount Everest for the first time, Charlie Houston and a team of mountaineers carve a path up the second highest peak on Earth: the deadly K2. For Houston, reaching the top of K2 is a lifelong dream, an obsession that began 15 years earlier on his first expedition there. Now, Houston's team follows their tracks, stumbling on camps abandoned during the bitter tragedy. With the summit in their grasp, a vicious storm and a sudden...
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