Withers, Pam

Why are the smart, perceptive boys struggling at school? Filled with reassurance and support, this book has heart-warming true stories, take-action checklists and over 200 helpful tips.

Beverly, who desperately wishes to both lose weight and learn how to dive, helps her uncle at his dive shop in Hawaii, and when she meets Garth, an experienced diver who seems interested in her, she initially becomes excited, quickly learning that Garth is only interested in one thing.

In his native Bolivia for an adventure race, Andreo and a friend/fellow adoptee secretly search for their birth parents - and are soon involved with dangerous baby-traffickers.

"Just as sixteen-year-old Andreo, skilled in death-defying ironman events in wilderness regions, is about to compete in rugged Bolivia, he and his friend Raul (another Bolivian adoptee) begin to suspect that their adoptive parents have unwittingly acquired them illegally. Plotting to use the upcoming race to pursue the truth, they veer on an epic journey to locate Andreo's birth parents, only to find themselves hazardously entangled with a gang of baby traffickers. Never suspecting that attempting to bring down the ring would endanger their very lives, the boys plunge ahead"--OCLC.

Avid kayaker Rex meets Myriam Calamb?s while vacationing in southwest Colombia and finds himself and Myriam caught in the middle of a clash between paramilitaries who are supposed to be there to protect the poor.

Jake, Peter, and Moses, looking forward to heli-skiing and snowboarding in the backcountry near Whistler, spring into crisis mode when bad weather sets in, a helicopter crashes, and they must get everyone to safety.

Peter is a freestyle maniac who hates doing bike maintenance.

Jake and Peter, trying to deal with their own problems while on a mountainboarding trip, face even more trouble when the mountain on which they are riding begins to show signs of erupting.

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.