What It's Like: To Climb Mount Everest, Blast Off Into Space, Survive a Tornado, and Other Extraordinary Stories

by Jeff Belanger

Book Overview

What is it like to reach the top of the world's tallest mountain? To survive a shark attack? To fly with the US Air Force Thunderbirds? To find out, Jeff Belanger conducted interviews with twelve ordinary people who just happened to do extraordinary things-and then turned the interviews into adrenaline-packed, thrilling stories told in the first-person voices of the interviewees. Includes WHAT IT'S LIKE… To Be Attacked by a Shark * To Save People from a Burning Building * To Walk Across America * To Experience Combat * To Fly with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds * To Survive a Tornado * To Be Struck by Lightning * To Sail Through a Hurricane at Sea * To Blast Off into Space * To Walk to the North Pole * To Run Your First Marathon…and Run Fifty Marathons in Fifty States in Fifty Consecutive Days * To Lose Both of Your Legs to Frostbite…and Climb Mount Everest

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402767110
• ISBN13: 9781402767111
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Sterling
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.1" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7