The Mount Everest Disaster of 1996
Published on 28. November 2023
Book
Hardback
32 pages
978-1-3982-5141-0 (ISBN)
Description
On 6 May 1996, dozens of excited climbers set off to scale Mount Everest and reach the highest point on Earth. On the morning of 10 May, the skies were clear. The summit was in sight. But hours later, a terrible storm hit. Eight climbers died as they became trapped near the peak. What went wrong, and how did the survivors manage to make it back alive?
Told through a gripping, full-colour graphic novel format, this Deadly Expeditions tale transports readers back in time to discover how one of the deadliest days on Mount Everest unfolded, bringing history to life for even the most reluctant and struggling readers.
Told through a gripping, full-colour graphic novel format, this Deadly Expeditions tale transports readers back in time to discover how one of the deadliest days on Mount Everest unfolded, bringing history to life for even the most reluctant and struggling readers.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Capstone Global Library Ltd
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 8 to 12 years
Dimensions
Height: 179 mm
Width: 238 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
288 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-3982-5141-0 (9781398251410)
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Cindy L. Rodriguez is the author of the YA novel When Reason Breaks and has contributed to the anthology Life Inside My Mind: 31 Authors Share Their Personal Struggles. She has also written the text for Volleyball Ace, Drill Team Determination, and Gymnastics Payback, all part of the Jake Maddox series. Before becoming a teacher, she was an award-winning reporter for The Hartford Courant and researcher for The Boston Globe's Spotlight Team. She is a founder of Latinxs in Kid Lit, a blog that celebrates children's literature by/for/about Latinxs. Cindy is a big fan of the three Cs: coffee, chocolate, and coconut. She is currently a middle school reading specialist in Connecticut, where she lives with her family. Since graduation, Paul McCaffrey has worked as a freelance illustrator, mainly in the area of children's education. His clients have included NME, Vox, Punch, Deadline, Empire, CUP, OUP, Attack! Books, Macmillan, Harcourt and Heinemann, amongst others.
More recently, he has drawn comics for companies as diverse as Marvel, DC, IDW, Thinkable and Network Distribution. For Titan Comics, he has produced a number of covers as well as drawing Anno Dracula 1895: Seven Days in Mayhem and co-creating Adler with Lavie Tidhar.
He lives in the UK with his wife and cat and far too many books than is good for him.
More recently, he has drawn comics for companies as diverse as Marvel, DC, IDW, Thinkable and Network Distribution. For Titan Comics, he has produced a number of covers as well as drawing Anno Dracula 1895: Seven Days in Mayhem and co-creating Adler with Lavie Tidhar.
He lives in the UK with his wife and cat and far too many books than is good for him.