Within reach : my Everest story

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Label

Within reach : my Everest story

Title remainder

my Everest story

Statement of responsibility

Mark Pfetzer & Jack Galvin

Title variation

My Everest story

Creator

• Pfetzer, Mark

Contributor

• Galvin, Jack

Subject

• trueBiographies -- Athletes
• trueBiographies -- Identity | Children and teenagers
• trueBooks for reluctant readers
• trueDeath
• trueDiaries
• trueAdventure nonfiction -- Disaster and survival
• trueAutobiographies and memoirs
• trueMountaineers -- United States -- Biography
• Mountaineers -- United States -- Biography | Juvenile literature
• trueNarrative nonfiction for kids and teens
• trueOutdoor recreation
• Pfetzer, Mark
• truePfetzer, Mark
• Pfetzer, Mark -- Juvenile literature
• trueRisk-taking (Psychology)
• trueSports and recreation -- Rock climbing
• trueSurvival
• trueTeenage mountaineers -- Biography
• trueTeenagers' writings
• Youths' writings
• Youths' writings, American
• Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
• trueMount Everest
• Mountaineering -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) -- Juvenile literature
• trueMountaineering -- Mount Everest
• Mountaineers

Genre

• trueTeenagers' writings
• trueAdventure nonfiction
• trueAutobiographies and memoirs
• trueBiographies
• trueBiography
• trueBooks for reluctant readers
• trueDiaries
• Juvenile literature
• trueNarrative nonfiction for kids and teens
• trueSports and recreation

Language

eng

Summary

The author describes how he spent his teenage years climbing mountains in the United States, South America, Africa, and Asia, with an emphasis on his two expeditions up Mount Everest

Pace

• trueFast-paced

Tone

• trueSuspenseful
• trueInspiring

Writing style

• trueEngaging

Award

YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, 1999

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

NjSoBT

Citation source

• BF0A
• BJ4A
• BK25
• BK3N
• BK4A
• BTBC
• BTK1
• BTK2
• BTK3
• CBS6
• CTBH
• F9E
• F9L
• HILR
• JH8
• KL0E
• MCB2
• MES7
• NJT8
• PPY7
• PWA
• SCH9
• VAB1
• WAE5
• XBYN
• XOER
• XY9L
• ZM74

Dewey number

• 796.52/2/092
• B

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

970

Intended audience source

Lexile

LC call number

GV199.92.P495

LC item number

A3 2000

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

970

Literary form

non fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 4
• 12

Target audience

juvenile