Results for: pam withers

Below is a list of 9 the books by this author.

Book cover of 1ST DESCENT
1ST DESCENT
By: pam withers | Published: September 2011

Montana-born Rex loves nothing more than to take his kayak out on a river, the faster and more powerful the better. When he gets the opportunity to...

Montana-born Rex loves nothing more than to take his kayak out on a river, the faster and more powerful the better. When he gets the opportunity to tackle the well-named El Furioso in southwest Colombia, he is thrilled. He anticipates the river’s challenges, but finds himself in a situation where the real danger is human. In Colombia, he meets Myriam Calambás, an indígena, who has lived along the El Furioso all her life. Though she loves its rushing waters, she dreams of leaving to get an education so that she can help her people. Her dreams, and her very survival, are in the balance when she and Rex are caught up in the clash between paramilitaries, working for rich landowners, and guerillas, who are supposed to be protecting the poor. Pam Withers’ skill at writing about extreme adventures combines with a compelling story about an endangered world and a people struggling for their very right to exist.

Theme: Survival

  • ISBN
    9781770492578
  • Binding
    Hardcover Canadian
  • Category
    Intermediate Fiction
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Book cover of BREATHLESS
BREATHLESS
By: pam withers | Published: September 2005

Beverly is in Hawaii, helping her uncle at his dive shop, learning how to dive and trying to lose weight and get a boyfriend. When Garth, an...

Beverly is in Hawaii, helping her uncle at his dive shop, learning how to dive and trying to lose weight and get a boyfriend. When Garth, an accomplished diver, shows an interest in her, Beverly is ecstatic, until it turns out Garth is only interested in one thing. Struggling with failing strength from her self-imposed starvation diet, Beverly finds herself in deep trouble when she has to fight Garth off underwater. Also available in Spanish.

Theme: Orca Soundings Series

  • ISBN
    9781551434803
  • Binding
    Paperback Canadian
  • Category
    Young Adult Fiction
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$9.95
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Book cover of CAMP SAUVAGE
CAMP SAUVAGE
By: pam withers | Published: February 2024

Dans ce roman captivant pour jeunes adolescents, Will s'estime trop vieux pour aller au camp de vacances et planifie de s'enfuir.

Theme: High Interest/Low Vocabulary

  • ISBN
    9781459835849
  • Binding
    Paperback French
  • Category
    French Intermediate Fiction
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Book cover of CAMP WILD
CAMP WILD
By: pam withers | Published: September 2020

In this high-interest novel for middle readers, Wilf figures he's too old for summer camp and plots his escape.

  • ISBN
    9781459827387
  • Binding
    Paperback Canadian
  • Category
    Intermediate Fiction
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Book cover of CASSE-COUS
CASSE-COUS
By: pam withers | Published: October 2010

Les Casse-Cous doivent fair sept coups d'audace avant que leur rivaux, les Sauvages, n'en fassent autant. Avant un accident où il a perdu...

Les Casse-Cous doivent fair sept coups d'audace avant que leur rivaux, les Sauvages, n'en fassent autant. Avant un accident où il a perdu l'usage de sa jambe gauche, Kip était le leader des Casse-Cous. Il a maintenant de la difficulté à réussir les coups et il soupconne que les autres membres veulent l'exclure du club. À mesure que les coups deviennent plus difficiles, les Casse-Cous tentent de convaincre Kip qu'il ne sera peut-être pas à la hauteur. Kip refuse d'abandonner même s'il sait que ses amis ont probablement raison. Kip's only friends are the members of the Daredevil Club, a club whose mission is to complete seven dangerous dares before their rivals, the Wildmen, complete their list of dares. Before the cliff diving accident in which he lost the use of his leg, Kip had been the leader of the Daredevil club. Now he has difficulty completing the dares and suspects that his membership is threatened. As the daredevils plan their final stunt, a dangerous climb along a narrow steel shelf beneath a bridge, they try to convince Kip that he may not be up to the task. Kip refuses to back down even though he suspects his friends might be right.

Theme: High Interest/Low Vocabulary, Orca Currents series

  • ISBN
    9781554693740
  • Binding
    Paperback French
  • Category
    French Intermediate Fiction
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Book cover of DRONE CHASE
DRONE CHASE
By: pam withers | Published: January 2021

Ray will need every ounce of his drone skills and outdoor smarts to recover his missing bear cub before poachers get to it first. When his orphan...

Ray will need every ounce of his drone skills and outdoor smarts to recover his missing bear cub before poachers get to it first. When his orphan bear cub goes missing, sixteen-year-old drone enthusiast Ray McLellan decides to use his airborne spying skills to find it. Little does he know that a bear-poaching gang operating in the surrounding forest has drones too — and a cold welcome for those who would attempt to take them down. As a New York City kid recently forced to move to the Great Bear Rainforest by his parents, what Ray doesn’t have is a lifetime of outdoor instincts, or familiarity with the valley and its wildlife. That makes him very different from his grumpy grandfather, who — like his new school friends — berate his city-kid uselessness at every opportunity. Can Ray use his drones and drone smarts to prove himself, find his cub, and expose what’s going on in the woods?

Theme: Technology, Adventure

  • ISBN
    9781459747432
  • Binding
    Paperback Canadian
  • Category
    Young Adult Fiction
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$14.99
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Book cover of MOUNTAIN RUNAWAYS
MOUNTAIN RUNAWAYS
By: pam withers | Published: January 2022

Will their wilderness skills be enough to survive the dangerous Rocky Mountains?First an avalanche in the Canadian Rockies kills their parents. Then...

Will their wilderness skills be enough to survive the dangerous Rocky Mountains?First an avalanche in the Canadian Rockies kills their parents. Then Children's Services threatens to separate them. That's when the three Gunnarsson kids decide to run away into the mountains and fend for themselves until the oldest turns eighteen and becomes their legal guardian. Not many would dare. But Jon, Korka, and Aron's parents ran a survival school.Turns out their plan is full of holes. When food and equipment go missing, and illness and injury strike, things get scary. They're even less prepared for encounters with dangerous animals and a sketchy woods dweller on their journey. On top of that, grief, cold, hunger, and sibling infighting threaten to tear them apart, and the search parties are closing in on them. Do the feisty three really have what it takes to survive?

Theme: Survival

  • ISBN
    9781459748316
  • Binding
    Paperback Canadian
  • Category
    Intermediate Fiction
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Book cover of STOWAWAY
STOWAWAY
By: pam withers | Published: August 2018

2020 Red Maple Fiction Award - Shortlisted "The fast-paced and suspenseful plot will keep readers rooting for Owen, Arturo, and the...

2020 Red Maple Fiction Award - Shortlisted "The fast-paced and suspenseful plot will keep readers rooting for Owen, Arturo, and the others." -School Library Journal Owen's plan to sail away on an adventure puts him on a collision course with some very dangerous people. When Owen's parents leave him on his own for a week, the sixteen-year-old gets bored and hatches a crazy idea: sneak onto the yacht that's visiting the sleepy Pacific Coast island where he lives and stow away on an adventure! Once on board the vessel, Owen quickly finds this is anything but innocent fun. The ship is packed with teenagers from Central America, and it looks like Owen has stumbled into a people-smuggling operation. Complications pile up and as things head from bad to worse, a haunting incident from Owen's past tightens its grip on him. There's only one way to break free and make his way home. Owen and the first mate, Arturo - a former street kid - must work together to commandeer the boat and win the trust of those on board. But who's friend and who's foe in the shifting tides?

  • ISBN
    9781459741911
  • Binding
    Paperback Canadian
  • Category
    Intermediate Fiction
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$12.99
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Book cover of TRACKER'S CANYON
TRACKER'S CANYON
By: pam withers | Published: July 2017

Nominated for the 2019 Red Maple Fiction Award When Tristan's dad disappears, he puts his tracking skills to the test to find him - but will...

Nominated for the 2019 Red Maple Fiction Award When Tristan's dad disappears, he puts his tracking skills to the test to find him - but will Tristan's talents save him if it turns out to be a trap? Thanks to his dad's coaching, sixteen-year-old Tristan is one of the best climbers and trackers in his small town. He can read footprints and bushes like they're security-camera footage, and fearlessly descend rock faces and waterfalls. But when his father disappears, leaving his mother too grief-stricken to function, the young canyoneer's life goes into freefall. Left in the hands of a well-meaning but incompetent uncle and a space-cadet housekeeper, Tristan finds life a struggle no matter how hard he works. When he nears the end of his rope at home, the teen decides to set off into Swallow Canyon in search of his father - only to realize that someone may be out to get him. Now the question is who's stalking whom, and are Tristan's skills up to the dangerous game playing out in the deep, shadowy canyon?

Theme: Survival

  • ISBN
    9781459739635
  • Binding
    Paperback Canadian
  • Category
    Young Adult Fiction
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$12.99
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