Peak
Peak
by Roland Smith
Ages 10–14
Fourteen-year-old Peak Marcello sets out to become the youngest person ever to summit Mount Everest — and finds the mountain far more dangerous, and the climb far more meaningful, than he expected.
- Author
- Roland Smith
- Age
- Ages 10–14
- Type
- Survival, Adventure, Chapter Book
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- In India
- Available
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