Nancy Keane's Booktalks -- Quick and Simple

Google Custom Search

Smith, Roland.
EDGE
New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
IL YA
ISBN
0544341228
Click on the book to read Amazon reviews
Peak Marcello made headlines for his attempt to be the youngest person to climb Mr. Everest.  At the top, Peak decided that his sherpa deserved the honor more than he did.  It has been awhile since that time and he has tried to live a normal life -- whatever that is.  When one of the richest men in the world offers him a chance to be part of a massive climbing event, he and his mother decide to take part.  Two hundred teens from all over the world will be taking part in the Peace Climb.  They will be working in small groups and will be climbing different mountains but all are scheduled to summit the same day.  Peak's group will be climbing in war-torn Afghanistan.  Peak is not exactly thrilled at this idea but he is assured that they will be safe.  He will be working with his old film crew from Everest as well as his Sherpa friend Zopa.  There will be body guards along also.  His team consists of four other teens -- one of which happens to be the daughter of an important French diplomat.  Surely they wouldn't send her into a dangerous situation.  Or would they?  Climb along with Peak as he finds himself in a very different sort of danger.

SUBJECTS:    Hindu Kush Mountains (Afghanistan and Pakistan) -- Fiction.
                        Mountaineering -- Hindu Kush Mountains (Afghasistan and Pakistan) -- Fiction.
                        Snow leopard -- Fiction.
                        Survival -- Fiction.

 
Main Page ** Author List ** Title List ** New This Month ** Interest Level ** Subject List ** FAQ's ** Contributors ** Booktalking Tips **Book Review Sources ** Reading lists ** Reading lists ** Awards **Nancy Keane's Children's Website ** nancy@nancykeane.com
Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License