Roland Smith
1) Eruption
Author
Series
Storm runners volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
The explosive conclusion to Roland Smith's fast-paced action series!Chase Masters and his friends have made it through the longest night of their lives, but their adventures are far from over. Now they're headed south of the border to track down the missing Rossi Brothers' Circus. With a volcano about to erupt after a massive earthquake, Chase has never faced such a serious threat to his survival! Roland Smith first worked with animals at the...
2) Shatterproof
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Amy and Dan Cahill are no strangers to impossible tasks. After seven of their relatives were kidnapped, the siblings scoured Europe for the priceless artifacts Vesper One demanded in exchange for the hostages. But then the Cahill kids are given an assignment that pushes them to their breaking point-a journey to a legendary city. Amy and Dan know they can't afford to fail, yet they're running out of options...and running out of time.
5) Kitty Hawk
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"The president's daughter has been kidnapped by the elusive and lethal Ghost Cell. Quest (Q) and Angela are in hot pursuit with vicious winds and blinding rain thwarting them at every turn. It's a desperate high stakes chase." -- Publisher.
Author
Series
Storm runners volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Chase Masters travels the country with his father, a "storm runner," but he is tested in ways he never could have imagined when he and a new friend are caught in a hurricane near St. Petersburg, Florida.
8) The surge
Author
Series
Storm runners volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
After barely surviving a terrifying hurricane, Chase and his friends Nicole and Rashawn have made it to the safety of Nicole's family farm, which is also the winter home of the Rossi Brothers Circus, where flood waters are rising and dangerous circus animals are on the loose.
9) The switch
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
On the day of Henry Ludd's thirteenth birthday, the power goes out. No phones, no news, people descending in lawlessness-- and in the chaos, Henry's father has gone missing.
10) Alcatraz
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"After thwarting the ghost cell's chemical attack in Chicago, Q and his stepsister Angela arrive in San Francisco to continue their parents' concert tour. They find themselves helping Boone and the S.O.S. team in the final showdown with the ghost cell and its leader, Number One"--
11) Beneath
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
What waits Beneath? Pat O'Toole has always idolized his older brother, Coop. He's even helped Coop with some of his crazier plans -- such as risking his life to help his big brother dig a tunnel underneath their neighborhood in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Coop is . . . different. He doesn't talk on the phone, doesn't use email, and doesn't have friends. He's never really cared for anything but the thrill of being underground and Pat. So it's no...
12) The edge
Author
Series
Peak volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to participate in an "International Peace Ascent" in the Hindu Kush, with a team made up of under-eighteen-year-old climbers from around the world--but from the first something seems wrong, so when the group is attacked, and most of the climbers are either killed or kidnapped, Peak finds himself caught up in a struggle to survive, shadowed by the Shen, a mysterious snow leopard.
13) Descent
Author
Series
Peak volume 4
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Mountain-climbing prodigy Peak Marcello faces his toughest challenge yet as he descends into Tibet and goes head-to-head with an old enemy"--
After surviving an avalanche on the remote and isolated mountain of Hkakabo Razi, Peak and his team will have to take a different route, and descend into Tibet. The only catch is that Peak's mountaineering father, Josh, and climbing guide, Zopa, are both wanted by the Chinese government. Making it off the...
Author
Series
Wildes volume 1
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A research trip to the Amazon rainforest turns into a dangerous mystery when Ring and Asia Wilde's scientist mother goes missing, and in order to rescue her, they must use their skills to survive the jungle.
15) Jaguar
Author
Series
Jacob Lansa volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
While accompanying his father on an expedition up the Amazon River to a jaguar preserve in Brazil, fourteen-year-old Jacob must contend with dangerous animals and fortune hunters.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"Step-siblings Q (Quest) and Angela are thrust into the work of the U.S. Secret Service and the Israeli Mossad when Angela realizes she's being followed, and Q learns the secret about Angela's real mother--a former Secret Service agent who was supposedly killed by a terrorist group. But who are the good guys and who are the bad guys"--Cover, P. [4].
17) Ascent
Author
Series
Peak volume 3
Publisher
HMH Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to climb Hkakabo Razi, one of the most isolated mountains in the world, but getting there involves a four-week trek through a tropical rainforest that is rife with hazards, which turns out to be more dangerous than summiting the mountain itself.
18) Elephant run
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Nick endures servitude, beatings, and more after his British father's plantation in Burma is invaded by the Japanese in 1941, and when his father and others are taken prisoner and Nick is stranded with his friend Mya, they plan a daring escape on elephants, risking their lives to save Nick's father and Mya's brother from a Japanese prisoner of war camp.
19) The Amazon
Author
Series
Wildes volume 1
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A research trip to the Amazon rainforest turns into a dangerous mystery when Ring and Asia Wilde's scientist mother goes missing, and in order to rescue her, they must use their skills to survive the jungle.