One Wrong Step
One Wrong Step
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One Wrong Step

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8 - 12
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336
Page count
85
Words per page
~750L
Lexile measure
Mar 4, 2025
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer A. Nielsen comes a brand-new, spine-tingling adventure about two kids and their fight for survival on the unforgiving trails of Mount Everest. Jennifer Nielsen’s storytelling climbs to new heights in this epic about loss, letting go, and the most important lesson a climber can learn: where the eye goes, a person follows. For a climber, letting go means certain death. For Atlas, it means something even worse. But he’ll have to learn how to let go and look up if he ever wants to see the top…Twelve-year-old Atlas Wade has been trying to forget the memory of his mother by climbing mountains ever since she died when he was nine years old. When his father signs them up for an expedition group hoping to be the first to ever summit the unconquerable Mount Everest, Atlas can’t wait for the chance to prove himself to his father, and maybe finally he can leave his mother behind him on the mountain.But this time, Atlas is the one left behind, as well as a young American girl named Maddie and their sturdy yet injured Sherpa, Chodak. When news breaks out that war has returned to Europe, and that Nazis are attempting their own summit dangerously nearby, Atlas and Maddie plead with the expedition to come back down.Their warnings come too late. Atlas looks up that same morning to see an avalanche and when they receive no word from the group, Maddie and Chodak join Atlas as he begins a dangerous journey up the mountain in the hopes of finding survivors.Atlas, Maddie, and Chodak will have to rely not just on their own wits for survival, but on each other as well, especially as sickness, bad weather, and their fears of a Nazi spy watching them puts their mission – and lives – at risk in the brutal terrain. And Atlas will have to learn how to let go if he wants any chance of finding his father and fixing the rift between them caused by his mother’s death, before it’s too late.Using one of the world’s greatest – and most infamous – mountains as a backdrop, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer A. Nielsen’s storytelling climbs to new heights in this touching, thrilling epic about grief, letting go, and the bonds that keep us alive.

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father-son relationshipssurvival storiesmountaineeringclimbingMount Everest

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9781338275865
    Publication Date
    March 4, 2025
    Original Publication Date
    March 4, 2025
    Page Count
    336
    Words Per Page
    85
    Audience
    Middle Grade
    Reading Age
    8 - 12 years
    Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
    2024039412
    Est. Lexile® Level
    ~750L
    Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
    ~R
    ATOS® Book Level
    4.8
    Accelerated Reader® Points
    10
    Accelerated Reader Quiz
    553468
    Accelerated Reader Interest Level
    MG

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