Roland Smith
1) Shatterproof
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Vesper One commands Dan and Amy Cahill to steal the Golden Jubilee, one of the world's largest diamonds, but what they do not know is that the Jubilee theft is just a setup and someone is going to die.
2) Peak
Author
Language
English
Description
A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
3) The edge
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
It was supposed to be a peace climb. That's what it was called when Peak Marcello was recruited to be part of a climbing team in Afghanistan. And it was supposed to be safe: far away from any fighting, with a private security force watching the climbers' backs. But just as the climb is getting started, the group is attached. Peak and afew others are left behind, but most of the climbers are taken -- kidnapped -- including Peak's mom. Now Peak's on...
4) The Amazon
Author
Series
The wildes volume 1
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A research trip to the Amazon rainforest turns into a dangerous mystery when Ring and Asia Wilde's scientist mother goes missing, and in order to rescue her, they must use their skills to survive the jungle.
Author
Series
I Q volume 1
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"Step-siblings Q (Quest) and Angela are thrust into the work of the U.S. Secret Service and the Israeli Mossad when Angela realizes she's being followed, and Q learns the secret about Angela's real mother--a former Secret Service agent who was supposedly killed by a terrorist group. But who are the good guys and who are the bad guys"--Cover, P. [4].
Author
Series
I Q volume 2
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Q (Quest) and Angela make it to the White House in Washington, D.C. to find that it is even harder to determine who is "good" and "bad" guys than ever before.
7) The surge
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After barely surviving a terrifying hurricane, Chase and his friends Nicole and Rashawn have made it to the safety of Nicole's family farm, which is also the winter home of the Rossi Brothers Circus, where flood waters are rising and dangerous circus animals are on the loose.
9) The vaquita
Author
Series
Wildes volume 2
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
Ring and Asia Wilde's wild life is anything but ordinary. Instead of attending school, they travel the world with their tutor and parents (scientists who work to protect endangered species). On their last adventure, they swung through the Amazon rainforest to save their mom from vile kidnappers--while defending the forest's population of golden lion tamarins. Now they're in Baja, Mexico--the Sea of Cortez to be exact--searching for the endangered...
10) Cats in the zoo
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Describes the habits of cats in the wild as well as the care cats receive in today's zoo in order to prevent their extinction.
Author
Series
I Q volume 5
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
"When Quest (Q) and his stepsister Angela head to Chicago for their parents' concert, they uncover another plot by the terrorist group Ghost Cell in the Windy City"--
12) Descent
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Mountain-climbing prodigy Peak Marcello faces his toughest challenge yet as he descends into Tibet and goes head-to-head with an old enemy"--
Author
Publisher
Godwin Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Did you know that brown rats were brought to the United States in the eighteenth century on a ship from England? Or that thousands of exotic pets were released into the Florida Everglades after a hurricane in 1992, leading to today's booming Burmese python population? All over the country, non-native species from around the world have been introduced to our lands, irrevocably changing the natural balances of their new habitats. This is the story...
14) Storm runners
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Chase Masters travels the country with his father, a "storm runner," but he is tested in ways he never could have imagined when he and a new friend are caught in a hurricane near St. Petersburg, Florida.
15) Ascent
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to climb Hkakabo Razi, one of the most isolated mountains in the world, but getting there involves a four-week trek through a tropical rainforest that is rife with hazards, which turns out to be more dangerous than summiting the mountain itself.
17) Tentacles
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After the mysterious disappearance of their parents, Marty and Grace go to live with their scientist uncle and accompany him on what soon becomes an increasingly dangerous expedition to New Zealand to track a giant squid.
18) Kitty Hawk
Author
Series
I Q volume 3
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"The president's daughter has been kidnapped by the elusive and lethal Ghost Cell. Quest (Q) and Angela are in hot pursuit with vicious winds and blinding rain thwarting them at every turn. It's a desperate high stakes chase"--
19) Elephant run
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Nick endures servitude, beatings, and more after his British father's plantation in Burma is invaded by the Japanese in 1941, and when his father and others are taken prisoner and Nick is stranded with his friend Mya, they plan a daring escape on elephants, risking their lives to save Nick's father and Mya's brother from a Japanese prisoner of war camp.
20) Beneath
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Pat O'Toole has always idolized his older brother, Coop, right up until the day Coop ran away from their home just outside Washington, D.C. -- now a year later he has received a package containing a digital voice recorder and a cryptic message from his brother, which will lead Pat on a strange and dangerous journey to the mysterious Community living beneath the streets of New York.