Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"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...
3) The summit
Author
Series
Everest volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Four kids are prepared to go into thin air in order to become the youngest person ever to climb Everest. But they are not prepared for the challenges that await them as they get closer to the summit. Supplies are low. Conditions are extreme. One of the kids is trying to sabotage the others. And then the storm hits ...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A Nepalese basket tells the story of its use through three generations of a family. Doko is only a simple basket. It is not only grain from the field that he carries--he has also carried his master's child, and wood for the fire. He was there when the child became a man and married. And he very nearly had to carry the grandfather away forever. Luckily, someone wise beyond their years spoke up and made it possible for Doko to carry the grandfather...
Author
Language
English
Description
It's 1924 and the race to summit the world's highest mountain has been brought to a terrified pause by the shocking disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine high on the shoulder of Mt. Everest. By the following year, three climbers -- a British poet and veteran of the Great War, a young French Chamonix guide, and an idealistic young American -- find a way to take their shot at the top. They arrange funding from the grieving Lady Bromley, whose...
6) The contest
Author
Series
Everest volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
10) Above all things
Author
Publisher
Amy Einhorn Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by the life and mysterious fate of George Mallory traces the experiences of his wife, Ruth, who in 1924 maintains a hopeful vigil in war-ravaged England during Mallory's fateful third expedition to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Author
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Chandra and her sister Deena see a demonstration of a "magic light," a solar-powered lantern, at a market near their home in Nepal and are determined to buy one, knowing it will help their little brother's cough to stop using kerosene lamps. Includes facts about Nepal.
12) Sold
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
Author
Series
Secret agent Jack Stalwart volume 13
Publisher
Weinstein Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A plane carrying a team of scientists has gone missing over Mount Everest. They were thought to be carrying the first true Yeti skull ever recovered -- proof that the Abominable Snowman really existed. Can Jack and his fellow agents use their climbing skills to brave the highest mountain on earth and recover the priceless skull?
14) Tintin in Tibet
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1975], c1962
Language
English
Description
Tintin searches the mountains of Nepal and Tibet for his friend, victim of an airplane crash.
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Exquisitely written, a blend of ghost stories, myths, and song, The Woman Who Climbed Trees is a haunting, deeply felt multi-generational story that illuminates the transitional nature of women's lives and the feeling of loss they experience, as they give up one home and family to become part of another. When she marries a man from Nepal, Meena must leave behind her family and home in India and forge a new identity in a strange place. The Woman Who...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of China's invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her younger sister, Tenkyi, arrive at a refugee camp in Nepal. They survived the dangerous journey across the Himalayas, but their parents did not. As Lhamo--haunted by the loss of her homeland and her mother, a village oracle--tries to rebuild a life amid a shattered community, hope arrives in the form of a young man named Samphel and his uncle, who brings with him the ancient...
Interlibrary Loan Request
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Des Moines Public Library can be requested from other libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? If the item was published recently, submit a purchase suggestion. Submit Request