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School Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 2015 | Young Adult
Gr 6–10—Six months after a perilous attempt to summit Mount Everest in Peak (HMH, 2007), 15-year-old Peak Marcello and a film crew are off to climb the Pamir mountains of Afghanistan. Dubbed the Peace Climb, in which 200 international teens are climbing the world's various mountains simultaneously, the event offers Peak an opportunity to exercise his Spiderman-like skills on something other than the tall buildings in his native New York. Joined by his mother, Teri, an experienced climbe...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on October 1, 2015
Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello, whose earlier adventure (Peak, rev. 5/07) saw him attempting Mount Everest, agrees to participate in a Peace Climb—two hundred climbers assigned to mountains all over the world for a Christmas television special. He’s an accomplished climber, but from the moment he arrives in war-torn Afghanistan, prepared to tackle the Pamirs, things go poorly. As his Sherpa friend Zopa says, “Something violent is ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2015
Fifteen-year-old Peak (<i>Peak</i>) agrees to participate in a Peace Climb--climbers assigned to mountains around the world for a television...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
