Most Popular Books by Pam Withers

Jake and Peter''s latest adventure finds them working as wake board instructors in a remote, and tension-ridden, community. The series author is an experienced journalist and outdoor enthusiast well able to keep readers on the edge of their seats.

Montana-born Rex loves nothing more than to take his kayak out on a river, the faster and more powerful the better. When he gets the opportunity to tackle the well-named El Furioso in southwest Colombia, he is thrilled. He anticipates the river’s challenges, but finds himself in a situation where the real danger is human. In Colombia, he meets Myriam Calambás, an indígena, who has lived along the El Furioso all her life. Though she loves its rushing waters, she dreams of leaving to get an education so that she can help her people. Her dreams, and her very survival, are in the balance when she and Rex are caught up in the clash between paramilitaries, working for rich landowners, and guerillas, who are supposed to be protecting the poor. Pam Withers’ skill at writing about extreme adventures combines with a compelling story about an endangered world and a people struggling for their very right to exist.

Jake and Peter land dream jobs as skateboarding stuntboys on a movie set. Sabotage soon points to a jealous friend, but who? Meanwhile, the boys have an uneasy relationship with three local skateboarding "toughs." Young Adult.

Ray will need every ounce of his drone skills and outdoor smarts to recover his missing bear cub before poachers get to it first. When his orphan bear cub goes missing, sixteen-year-old drone enthusiast Ray McLellan decides to use his airborne spying skills to find it. Little does he know that an evil bear-poaching gang operating in the surrounding forest has drones, too — and a cold welcome for those who would attempt to take them down. As a New York City kid recently forced to move to the Great Bear Rainforest by his parents, Ray doesn’t have a lifetime of outdoor instincts or familiarity with the valley and its wildlife. That makes him very different from his grumpy grandfather, who — like his new school friends — berates his city-kid uselessness at every opportunity. Can Ray use his drones and smarts to prove himself, find his cub, and expose what’s going on in the woods?

2020 Red Maple Fiction Award — Shortlisted • 2021 Chocolate Lily Award — Winner “The fast-paced and suspenseful plot will keep readers rooting for Owen, Arturo, and the others.” —School Library Journal Owen’s plan to sail away on an adventure puts him on a collision course with some very dangerous people. When Owen’s parents leave him on his own for a week, the sixteen-year-old gets bored and hatches a crazy idea: sneak onto the yacht that’s visiting the sleepy Pacific Coast island where he lives and stow away on an adventure! Once on board the vessel, Owen quickly finds this is anything but innocent fun. The ship is packed with teenagers from Central America, and it looks like Owen has stumbled into a people-smuggling operation. Complications pile up and as things head from bad to worse, a haunting incident from Owen’s past tightens its grip on him. There’s only one way to break free and make his way home. Owen and the first mate, Arturo — a former street kid — must work together to commandeer the boat and win the trust of those on board. But who’s friend and who’s foe in the shifting tides?

Beverly is in Hawaii, helping her uncle at his dive shop, learning how to dive and trying to lose weight and get a boyfriend. When Garth, an accomplished diver, shows an interest in her, Beverly is ecstatic, until it turns out Garth is only interested in one thing. Struggling with failing strength from her self-imposed starvation diet, Beverly finds herself in deep trouble when she has to fight Garth off underwater. This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for teen readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read! Available in Spanish as Respira.

Nominated for the 2019 Red Maple Fiction Award When Tristan’s dad disappears, he puts his tracking skills to the test to find him — but will Tristan’s talents save him if it turns out to be a trap? Thanks to his dad’s coaching, sixteen-year-old Tristan is one of the best climbers and trackers in his small town. He can read footprints and bushes like they’re security-camera footage, and fearlessly descend rock faces and waterfalls. But when his father disappears, leaving his mother too grief-stricken to function, the young canyoneer’s life goes into freefall. Left in the hands of a well-meaning but incompetent uncle and a space-cadet housekeeper, Tristan finds life a struggle no matter how hard he works. When he nears the end of his rope at home, the teen decides to set off into Swallow Canyon in search of his father — only to realize that someone may be out to get him. Now the question is who’s stalking whom, and are Tristan’s skills up to the dangerous game playing out in the deep, shadowy canyon?

In this high-interest novel for middle readers, thirteen-year-old Chris is setting up a commercial bungee jump on a historical island that was once the site of a hospital for children with leprosy.

Jake, Peter and Moses are looking forward to heli-skiing and snowboarding in the backcountry near Whistler. But just after they are dropped off on a mountain peak, bad weather closes in and a helicopter crashes. It''s up to them to rescue any survivors and overcome avalanches, hypothermia and wild animals to make their way to safety. This is the second title in the extreme adventure fiction series by Pam Withers. Book jacket.

Peter and Jake are excited to be in on the development of a bike trail west of the Canadian Rockies but things are not what they seem and the boys are plunged into the decent of their lives.

Will their wilderness skills be enough to survive the dangerous Rocky Mountains? First a Canadian Rockies avalanche kills their parents. Then Children’s Services threatens to separate them. That’s when the three Gunnarsson kids decide to run away into the mountains and fend for themselves until the oldest turns eighteen and becomes their legal guardian. Not many would dare. But Jon, Korka, and Aron’s parents ran a survival school. Turns out their plan is full of holes. When food and equipment go missing and illness and injury strike, things get scary. They’re even less prepared for encounters with dangerous animals and a sketchy woods dweller. On top of that, grief, cold, hunger, and sibling infighting threaten to tear them apart, while the search parties are closing in on them. Do Jon, Korka, and Aron really have what it takes to survive?

Peter and Jake, friends and rivals, go on a whitewater rafting trip, but after a series of mishaps strands their group, they need all of their skill to get through the rapids and find help.

Jake and Peter''s latest adventure sees the boys stranded after a scuba diving accident and facing an extreme storm. The series author is an experienced journalist and outdoor enthusiast well able to keep readers on the edge of their seats.

Kip''s only friends are the members of the Daredevil Club, a club whose mission is to complete seven dangerous dares before their rivals, the Wildmen, complete their list of dares. Before the cliff-diving accident in which he lost the use of his leg, Kip had been the leader of the Daredevil Club. Now he has difficulty completing the dares and suspects that his membership is threatened. As the daredevils plan their final stunt, a dangerous climb along a narrow steel shelf beneath a bridge, they try to convince Kip that he may not be up to the task. Kip refuses to back down even though he suspects his friends might be right. This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for middle-grade readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read! The epub edition of this title is fully accessible. Available in French as Les Casse-Cous.

Just as sixteen-year-old Andreo, skilled in death-defying ironman events in wilderness regions, is about to compete in rugged Bolivia, he and his friend Raul (another Bolivian adoptee) begin to suspect that their adoptive parents have unwittingly acquired them illegally. Plotting to use the upcoming race to pursue the truth, they veer on an epic journey to locate Andreo''s birth parents, only to find themselves hazardously entangled with a gang of baby traffickers. Never suspecting that attempting to bring down the ring would endanger their very lives, the boys plunge ahead. Compelling, poignant, and heart-stopping, Andreo''s Race takes readers on a perilous quest to discover the true meaning of family.

Daredevil fifteen-year-olds and best friends Jake and Peter discover a maze of old mining tunnels where they face unexpected dangers.

Wilf is convinced his parents want nothing to do with him. When he isn''t in school, he is left to his own devices or shipped away to camp. But at fifteen, Wilf is adamant that he is too old for summer camp. When his parents ignore his protests and ship him off anyway, he knows how he will get their attention: He will escape from camp by canoe and spend the rest of his vacation alone in the woods, proving to his parents he deserves his independence. His plan begins to unravel when his cabin mate forces Wilf to take him along. Things go from bad to worse when a younger camper follows them and they all end up in a fight for their lives against the unforgiving river. This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for middle-grade readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read! The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.

Jake and Peter''s final adventure finds them training as guides to ride wheeled boards down volcanoes complicated by Peter''s secret agenda, Jake''s inner turmoil, the arrival of two girls and a nasty senior guide.

A series of accidents on the racing track and a natural disaster make Peter and Jake realize that they do not really understand how to use their dirt bikes.

This time, when Jake and Peter stumble upon adrenaline-pumping adventure, it''s high in the peaks of the Bugaboo Mountains just west of the Rockies. Fifteen-year-old Jake is obsessed with solo-climbing a soaring granite spire. His best friend, Peter, is as absorbed with filming Jake for a video as he is in not divulging his secret fear of heights to the runaway girl who joins them. Though a talented climber, the surly runaway girl seems possessed by a death wish. When Jake arrives at the halfway mark and cheerfully hangs his overnight cot on anchors at a death-defying 150-storey height above the ground, all seems well, but the next day, a lightning storm begins to unravel this carefully planned high-risk adventure. When a crisis prompts the girl to put her life at stake for Jake, it falls to Peter to overcome his fear to get everyone home safely. Packed with mountaineering lore and cliff-hanging tension, Vertical Limits features adventures in competitive gym climbing, outdoor urban climbing, and wilderness rock climbing.

Running wild in the mountains of eastern Washington as a child, world-class extreme kayaker and entrepreneur Tao Berman continues to run wild through the record books and life. A world-record waterfall-drop holder since his 98.4-foot kayak flight ...

Everyone knows that boys are falling behind in education. Largely left out of the discussion are parents of boys, who are most aware that their bright, eager sons hit an invisible wall somewhere near fourth grade, after which they become disengaged, discouraged, and disaffected. There are dozens of books on underachieving boys, but most parents brave enough to lift one off the shelf are instantly intimidated by the footnotes, graphs, case studies, and academic-speak addressed almost entirely to educators. What about the average guilt-ridden, frustrated mother or father of an underachieving boy? Jump-Starting Boys is the first book on the market that empowers parents, helping them reclaim the duties and rewards of raising their children and navigate the influences of school and media. Filled with reassurance and support, the authors turn fear and guilt into can-do confidence. Through easy tips and action list sidebars, this is the most practical, readable book on the topic.

These are some of the values shaping the workplace today. Over the past five years there has been a marked difference as to why people stay at one company and not another. An understanding of this changing dynamics is essential for business leaders who want to continue to attract and keep the very best employees. Values Shift defines how and why our work ethic has and will continue to change. It focuses on the six major values people expect the workplace to honor. As well, it offers practical ideas on what companies and managers can do to retain and inspire the people they need and value. Book jacket.

Les Casse-Cous doivent fair sept coups d''audace avant que leur rivaux, les Sauvages, n''en fassent autant. Avant un accident où il a perdu l''usage de sa jambe gauche, Kip était le leader des Casse-Cous. Il a maintenant de la difficulté à réussir les coups et il soupconne que les autres membres veulent l''exclure du club. À mesure que les coups deviennent plus difficiles, les Casse-Cous tentent de convaincre Kip qu''il ne sera peut-être pas à la hauteur. Kip refuse d''abandonner même s''il sait que ses amis ont probablement raison. Cet ouvrage en format ePub est entièrement accessible. Également disponible sous le titre Daredevil Club en anglais.

Arguments de vente Camp Sauvage est un roman d’action où l’on aborde les thèmes de la rébellion, du travail d’équipe et de l’aventure en plein air. Des caractéristiques spéciales (caractères typographiques, papier de couleur crème, format du livre) facilitent la lecture pour les dyslexiques et les jeunes qui éprouvent des difficultés à lire.

Hudson Greer and his caving partner, Jett, are determined to become teen legends who discover a long-sought passageway that connects two giant cave systems in their little mountain town. But they''re haunted by the history of a giant sinkhole that opened up and swallowed the town''s fully-packed church, steeple and all. Dozens were killed, including Hudson''s grandfather. Hudson knows it''s in danger of happening again; he just doesn''t know when or where. Can his caving instincts and science knowledge predict or prevent the next disaster? Are the shoddy logging practices of the town''s main employer tempting fate? And who''s on whose side when business and political shenanigans mix with evaded environmental codes? Nothing less than the lives of the townspeople are at stake - and it''s up to Hudson to separate myth from fact, and get key players working together, before it''s too late.

Beverly está en Hawái ayudando a su tío en su tienda de buceo, aprendiendo a bucear y tratando de perder peso y conseguir un novio. Cuando Garth, un buceador experimentado, muestra interés en ella, Beverly está feliz, hasta que resulta que a Garth solo le interesa una cosa. Cada vez más débil por la drástica dieta que se impuso ella misma, Beverly se encuentra en graves problemas cuando tiene que defenderse de Garth bajo el agua. Disponible en inglés: Breathless.

Parkour enthusiast Bronte Miller is back from a year in Alexandria, Egypt, where her father was a war correspondent. It means she misses her secret Egyptian boyfriend and is bored in her desert hometown of Richland, Washington. That is, until Yemen refugee Karam Saif shows up, trying awkwardly to fit into American high school life. "I can help him with that," she thinks. Handsome, attentive and an ace parkour athlete, Karam seems the perfect antidote to her impossible home situation and not-happening readjustment to American life. Together, they and the Parkour Club party-it-up around town and revel in learning challenging new parkour moves. But both have Middle Eastern secrets that draw them ever closer to danger, and someone they can''t identify is meddling with their lives. Can they outrun the past, or join forces and save each other?

Twelve-year-old Max and his younger sister Marie love having an unspoiled island all to themselves. So when they learn it''s being turned into a paintball park, they''re torn between enjoying their schoolmates'' envy, and worrying about the game wrecking their home. It''s time for them to rally their friends and put all they''ve learned about paintball strategy and teamwork into protecting their land and its wildlife.

Are you ready to start enjoying your work? Feeling bored, stuck or otherwise uninspired at work? Before you quit your job or change careers, think again. This timely and important book shows that anyone can be inspired at work. What matters most is not what work you do but how you think about it. Rethinking Your Work provides a blueprint for solving the pressing issue of job satisfaction and fufillment. Author Val Kinjerski, PhD, a leading authority in the field, shares findings from a decade of results-based research. She relates inspiring real-life stories of employees with passion and provides field-tested exercises that will help you get to the heart of what matters. In this engaging, easy-to-read book you will discover: -What spirit at work is and why it matters -How defining moments in your life influenced your experience of work -The four possible paths to spirit at work -Successful strategies to renew your enthusiasm for the work you do Research proves that by simply rethinking your work, you can have a profound sense of well-being, renewed enthusiasm for your work and increased job satisfaction. Start today to rethink how you see, understand and feel about your work.

This is the third adrenalin-pumping outdoor sports adventure in the Take It to the Extreme series with best friends Peter and Jake. It''s summer vacation, and when Ron, a former guide with Sam''s Adventure Tours, invites Jake and Peter to help develop a mountain bike trail in in British Columbia, near the American border, the boys can''t believe their luck. Or so they think. As they start working hard in an isolated park, the boys sense that Ron might not be telling the truth and they begin to question his motives. When Peter tells Jake about his misgivings, things start to heat up. Join the boys as they plunge into the mountain-biking descent of their lives.

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