Peak

A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.

Main Author:	Smith, Roland, 1951-
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Orlando, FL : Harcourt Children's Books, c2007.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	Peak Marcello adventure ; 1.
Subjects:	Coming of age > Juvenile fiction. Mountaineering > Juvenile fiction. Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc > Juvenile fiction. Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) > Juvenile fiction. Action and adventure fiction > Juvenile.

Summary:	A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
Physical Description:	246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
ISBN:	9780152024178 0152024174
Author Notes:	Roland Smith was born in Portland, Oregon on November 30, 1951. He received a Bachelor's degree in English from Portland State University. His job working for a children's zoo began a 20-year career as a zookeeper. After working to save wildlife following the Exxon Valdez oil spill, his first non-fiction book, Sea Otter Rescue, was published in 1990. He continued to draw upon his zoo experiences for other non-fiction titles, including Journey of the Red Wolf, which won an Oregon Book Award in 1996. His first novel, Thundercave, was published in 1997. His other fiction books include The Captain's Dog: My Journey with the Lewis and Clark Tribe, Zach's Lie, Jack's Run, Cryptid Hunters, Peak, and Shatterproof. He also writes the I, Q. series and the Storm Runners series. (Bowker Author Biography)