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Before becoming the fastest person to hike the Appalachian Trail and the National Geographic 2012 Explorer of the Year, Jennifer Pharr Davis was just a 21-year-old fresh out of college who had ...
Waterless Mountain is an American novel by Laura Adams Armer published in 1931, recommended for teens between the ages of 13 and 19. [1] Awarded the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature , as well as Longmans Juvenile Fiction Prize, it is a coming-of-age story about a Navajo boy.
Following the death of compiler John Cook in 2001, Steve Deger and Leslie Ann Gibson took over as series editors, creating The Women's Book of Positive Quotations (2002, now out-of-print), The Little Book of Positive Quotations (2006) and a revised and expanded The Book of Positive Quotations, 2nd Edition (2007), which included 3,000 new ...
At the Mountain's Base received starred reviews from School Library Journal, [1] Booklist, [2] and Shelf Awareness, [3] as well as positive reviews from Publishers Weekly, [4] American Indians in Children's Literature, [5] and Kirkus. [6] Bank Street College of Education named At the Mountain's Base one of the best children's books of 2020. [7]
Joe Simpson (born 13 August 1960) is a British mountaineer, author, and motivational speaker.While climbing in Peru in 1985, he suffered severe injuries and was assumed dead by his climbing companion Simon Yates after falling into a crevasse, but he survived and managed to crawl back to his base camp.
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains is a non-fiction collection of articles and essays by Jon Krakauer on mountaineering and rock climbing. Eleven out of twelve of the chapters were initially published between 1982 and 1989 in the magazines Outside , Smithsonian , and New Age Journal .
Children's literature portal; When I Was Young in the Mountains is a 1982 children's book by Cynthia Rylant.The book, which Rylant later said took her but an hour to complete, earned an American Book Award in 1982 and Diane Goode's illustrations won it a Caldecott Honor for children's literature.
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