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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
96 p. : ill., col. photos.
Language
English
Description
Author and climber Stephen Venables discusses the history of Mt. Everest, the first successful climb by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953, and the effect that growing Himalayan tourism has had on local people and on the mysterious Mt. Everest itself.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose,...
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose,...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Bks
Pub. Date
[c1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
150p illus map
Language
English
Description
Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a description of the building and operation of railroads in nineteenth-century America
14) The Ohio River
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
187 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.
Language
English
20) Colombia
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
144 p. : col. illus.
Language
English
Description
Describes the geography, history, people, industries, and culture of Colombia.