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Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In the spirit of Station Eleven and California, award-winning novelist Holly Goddard Jones offers a literary spin on the dystopian genre with this gripping story of survival and humanity about a group of adrenaline junkies who jump "the Salt Line." How far will they go for their freedom--once they decide what freedom really means? In an unspecified future, the United States' borders have receded behind a salt line--a ring of scorched earth that...
3) Dare me
Author
Publisher
RP Teens
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When Ben Candido and his friends, Ricky and John, decide to post a YouTube video of themselves surfing on top of a car, they finally feel like the somebodies they are meant to be instead of the social nobodies that they are. Overnight, the video becomes the talk of the school. Every dare brings an increased risk of bodily harm, and the stakes become even more complex when a mysterious donor bankrolls their dares in exchange for a cut in the online...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Folks say that when Sam Patch was born, he jumped right into his mother's arms. That was just the beginning! As a young boy working at a cotton mill, he jumped off the mill roof into the river below. When he was older, he jumped off cliffs and a ship, earning a reputation as a true daredevil. Then on October 17, 1829, Sam jumped into Niagara Falls! News of his death-defying leaps swept the nation-and Sam Patch jumped right into American legend.
5) Demon Rumm
Author
Language
English
Description
Widow Kirsten Rumm falls in live with Rylan North, the handsome actor assigned to play the part of her husband in a film about the late daredevil stunt pilot.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Women have been doing amazing, daring, and dangerous things for years, but they're rarely mentioned in our history books as adventurers, daredevils, or rebels. This new compilation of brief biographies features women throughout history who have risked their lives for adventure - many of who you may not know, but all of whom you'll WANT to know, such as: Minnie Spotted Wolf, the first Native American marine; Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to...
Author
Series
Gilded Age mystery volume 7
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
October 1890. Prudence and Geoffrey settle into the most elegant hotel in Canadian Niagara, they observe a popular tourist area torn between natural beauty and industrial power. They also notice the antics of daredevil Crazy Louie Whiting, determined to be the first person to navigate the falls without drowning. When Crazy Louie sends a specially designed test barrel containing a sheep over the falls, the barrel is retrieved and the battered body...
10) Wingwalkers
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A former WWI ace pilot and his wingwalker wife barnstorm across Depression-era America, performing acts of aerial daring. "They were over Georgia somewhere, another nameless hamlet whose dusty streets lay flocked and trembling with the pink handbills they'd rained from the sky that morning, the ones that announced the coming of DELLA THE DARING DEVILETTE, who would DEFY THE HEAVENS, shining like a DAYTIME STAR, a WING-WALKING WONDER borne upon the...
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