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The edge

Roland Smith

2015238 pagesabout 4–5 hours
2015
first published
  • 2015Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 238 pages · ENGISBN 9780544341227

The International Peace Ascent is the brainchild of billionaire Sebastian Plank: Recruit a global team of young climbers and film an inspiring, world-uniting documentary. The adventure begins when fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello and his mountaineer mother are helicoptered to a remote base camp in the Hindu Kush Mountains on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. When the camp is attacked and his mother taken, Peak has no choice but to track down the perpetrators to try to save her.

How it feels

AtmosphereSnowy

Worth knowing

Written forMiddle grade

When and where

ThemesSurvival
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