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"A powerful, heart-wrenching debut novel about ambition, survival, and our responsibility toward one another. 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...
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Wilder boys volume 4
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English
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"The Wilder Boys are excited to be spending part of their summer at a wilderness camp. Jake is going to be working as an assistant counselor, and Taylor will be in his cabin. Along with the rest of their group, they'll spend two weeks honing their skills and learning to work together before a multiday trek traversing woodland, mountain, and desert terrain during a team-based competition. But no amount of training could have prepared them for what...
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Alaska Air One Rescue volume 1
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English
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"When country music star Oaken Fox joins survivalist Mike Grizz's new adventure show in the Alaskan wilderness, he just wants to boost his fan base. But when tragedy strikes and Air One Rescue must save them, Oaken wants to quit. Too bad his producer has other plans -- signing him on with Air One Rescue as a recruit and making a reality show. EMT Boo Kingston did not join Air One Rescue to train a celebrity. But she's a rookie to the team, so yes,...
4) Stay dead
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2024.
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Entrusted with a key by her dying mother, sixteen-year-old Milan pretends she perished along with her mother as she navigates freezing conditions, outsmarts assassins, and unravels a deadly conspiracy to save herself and others.
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Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"A teenager wanders alone through the jungle in Peru. A woman loses her way in an Australian rain forest. A pilot crash-lands in the Amazon. These remarkable true tales could have ended in tragedy-but they didn't! What happened to three people who found themselves wandering for weeks though dense jungles? And how did they survive to tell their tales? Young readers will find out in this easy-to-read hi-lo graphic novel that will keep them on the edge...
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Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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In this title, readers learn how to survive in the desert through the real-life experiences of those who survived. In addition to how to stay warm, find food and water, avoid the sun, make a shelter, and signal for help, this title examines the climate, plants and animals, and dangers of the desert. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. A&D Xtreme is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequor, the trade division of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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You don't have to be Paul Bunyan to build a wilderness home. In fact, you don't even need an ax, and nails are not an absolute necessity. What you'll need is Wilderness Shelters & How to Build Them, the definitive guide to building log cabins, camping shelters, blockhouses, and more. Here are illustrated instructions for everything from felling trees to splitting logs, from laying foundations to insulating roofs. This book also shows you how to fashion...
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Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Survival instincts have made humans what we are today. However, modernity has made those instincts much less of a focus for many people. For this reason, stories of survival can seem even more captivating. This unparalleled volume features more than a dozen remarkable tales of survival against the odds based on true events. Illustrations and a layout inspired by graphic novels make readers feel like they are part of the grueling struggles to stay...
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Campground Kids volume 2
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Spotlight
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Shortly after the Campground Kids arrive at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the family receives bear encounter training. The Campground Kids soon understand why camping in the Smoky Mountains comes with great responsibility...
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Skyhorse Publishing, The Boy Scouts of America
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[2023]
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English
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Each year hundreds of outdoor enthusiasts find themselves in an unexpected outdoor emergency. They get lost, injured, or stranded. Cut off from the rest of the world, they have to depend upon their survival skills to survive. For most people, thanks to modern communications such as cell phones, satellite messengers, and personal locator beacons (PLB), it is merely a sobering two- or three-hour adventure. However, for some who did not take the proper...
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