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21) The summit
Author
Series
Everest volume 3
Pub. Date
2002
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
154 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Four kids are prepared to go into thin air in order to become the youngest person ever to climb Everest. But they are not prepared for the challenges that await them as they get closer to the summit. Supplies are low. Conditions are extreme. One of the kids is trying to sabotage the others. And then the storm hits ... "--p. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
AD 620L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Chandra and her sister Deena see a demonstration of a "magic light," a solar-powered lantern, at a market near their home in Nepal and are determined to buy one, knowing it will help their little brother's cough to stop using kerosene lamps. Includes facts about Nepal and a DIY solar energy project.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
319 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Dixon was once an Olympic-level runner. But he missed the team by two-tenths of a second, and ever since that pain decades ago, he hasn't allowed a goal to consume him. But when his charming older brother, Nate, suggests that they attempt to be the first Black American men to summit Mount Everest, Dixon can't refuse. The brothers are determined to prove something--to themselves and to each other. Dixon interrupts his orderly life as a school psychologist,...
Author
Publisher
Smart Apple Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Library-bound edition.
Physical Desc
207 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
As part of a group of young climbers trying to climb Mount Everest, the reader must make decisions that will ensure survival and success in reaching the summit.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
266 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Nanda Singh, the youngest elephant driver in Nepal, enjoys a very special relationship with his tusker, Hira Prashad, through which he grows in understanding and compassion with all animals, including humans.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
466 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
". . . 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"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
112 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Since the beginning of time, we have been fascinated with heights. Mount Everest, therefore, is at the tip top of our fascination. In this tale, you call the shots in trying to conquer dizzying heights. Each decision becomes more important than the last as you climb heavenward. Will you make it? Will you fall? Will you survive at all? YOU CHOOSE how this adventure ends. -- Page [4] of cover.
30) The white road
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Desperate to attract subscribers to his fledgling website, ex-adrenaline junkie Simon Newman undertakes two life-risking ventures, one in the notorious Cwm Pot caves and another scaling Everest, that force him to test the limits of his morality and wits in order to survive.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
349 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of China's invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her younger sister, Tenkyi, arrive at a refugee camp in Nepal. They survived the dangerous journey across the Himalayas, but their parents did not. As Lhamo--haunted by the loss of her homeland and her mother, a village oracle--tries to rebuild a life amid a shattered community, hope arrives in the form of a young man named Samphel and his uncle, who brings with him the ancient...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
400 pages : chiefly illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The first volume of Osamu Tezuka's fictional biography of Siddhartha, Gautama Buddha. Introduces Chapra, a slave boy who tries to escape his fate; Chapra's slave mother, who sticks by him no matter what; Tatta, a crazed wild child pariah who communes with animals; and Naradatta, a monk attempting to decipher strange portents of the Buddha's birth.