Free Solo ClimbingCould you scale a sheer cliff? Picture the rock beneath your fingertips. The air thinning as you ascend higher and higher. Then, with no ropes to catch you, each move becomes critical. Free solo climbing is an exhilarating test of skill and nerve, offering unique thrills, challenges, and risks. High school readers get detailed knowledge of the skills and equipment needed to succeed at this extreme sport. Action packed photography and dynamic sidebars

plus sensational players associated with the professional baseball team such as David Wright

medical training

Investigating terrioristic threats

“Think About It” features

STEM and biology lessons

Includes a glossary of important words and tips for communicating with nonverbal people

eloquent text perfectly complements Innocenti's gray and beige photorealistic illustrations that show haunting

the books in The Amicus Book of… series are beautiful books to share with little ones just beginning to recognize early basic concepts of letters

and hunting characteristics of these South American river predators

a jazz bandleader

and misused words--and how to fix them

Readers explore this large reptile's features and behaviors