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From New York Times bestselling author Vivian Arend comes both books in the Extreme Adventures series.Falling FreestyleWith her outdoor adventure buddies, Dara's lived life to the max. Now Kane and Jack are both considering settling down, with Dara, but neither wants to break up their trio. Dara has a plan that will solve everything-or lose it all.Rising FreestyleRecovering after a climbing accident, Melanie tackles the wall at the local climbing...
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It turns out Storm never had Uncle Dan at all! He is now safe at home and the virtual reality system is secure against all hacking. Uncle Dan has finished his prototype and arranged for a buyer. The buyer, a young woman, says she wants to try the suit first and she needs a guide. So Carter agrees to enter Great Expectations with her. What the family doesn't know is the young woman is actually Storm and she's got one last trick up her sleeve -- revenge!
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Storm has captured Uncle Dan and is holding him hostage. To get their uncle back, Carter and Isabelle have to destroy the suit and delete all his files for the program. But, Carter knows Storm can't resist a challenge so he dares Storm to compete against him inside a book. If Carter guesses which character in Treasure Island that Storm is, Storm has to release their uncle immediately. If Storm wins, Isabelle will destroy everything in their uncle's...
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Uncle Dan invites Carter and Isabelle to help him unveil the virtual reality suits in a huge bookstore in New York. The test in Alice In Wonderland goes fine. But when a brownout fries Uncle Dan's system, two kids are trapped inside the suits. Somehow, the suit combined Wind in the Willows and Peter Pan and Uncle Dan and Isabelle can't get the kids out. Carter must suit up in the spare rig and bring the kids out while Dan and Isabelle struggle to...
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A wealthy but unpublished author hires Uncle Dan to turn his book into a virtual world so that he can get the attention of a publisher. But soon Carter and Isabelle begin to suspect this author is a little too desperate for success. In fact, he's lifted characters and dialog directly from classic books for his masterpiece. Can Carter and Isabelle reveal the plagiarism of Edgar Allan Poe's The Purloined Letter and convince Uncle Dan to put a stop to...
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Uncle Dan is still tracking down the hacker known as Storm. While Carter waits, he's looking for a way to get out of actually reading his homework. Since Isabelle has cleaned up the virtual reality code, Carter heads into "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." What he doesn't know is that Storm has left a few traps. Isabelle can't get the virtual reality program to shut down to get Carter out of the suit. She has to try the most dangerous thing of all - a...
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Carter Lewis is thrilled when he gets a coded message from his computer-programming uncle offering him the coolest job in the world - helping test a new virtual reality program. Carter will even put up with Uncle Dan's other new helper, Carter's brainiac cousin Isabelle. Everything is fantastic until Uncle Dan discovers someone has tampered with the code in The Three Musketeers. The hacker has left clues to his identity, so Uncle Dan sends the kids...
8) Shark Bait
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Extreme adventures volume 3
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Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
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Sam Fox is on vacation at the Great Barrier Reef, when he and a young Japanese tourist are swept off a coral shelf by a freak wave. Before they know it, a strong current has pushed them out into open water. First, Sam must fight to keep himself and his new friend from drowning. Then, as night falls over the inky black ocean, the underwater predators start moving in ...
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Extreme adventures volume 1
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Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2010
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When the robber who has kidnapped Sam Fox and his two-year-old cousin Nissa crashes his car into the Crocodile River, Sam struggles to protect himself and Nissa from the danger all around them.
10) Grizzly trap
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Extreme adventures volume 9
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Kane Miller
Pub. Date
2015
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English
11) Scorpion sting
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Extreme adventures volume 4
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Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2010.
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Sam Fox is on a caving expedition in the desert when the roof collapses, trapping his brother Nathan beneath tons of rubble; Sam reaches the cave exit but discovers a sea of huge, angry scorpions.
12) Killer whale
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Extreme adventures volume 7
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Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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Sam Fox is on holidays with his family in Antarctica when their ski plane crashes on the ice. As the unstable iceshelf cracks apart, Sam and his younger brother become separated from the rest of the group. Before long, they're stranded on a wobbly icefloe. Just when it seems things couldn't get any worse, a massive creature emerges from the deep. A creature with huge jaws, and rows and rows of enormous teeth.
13) Bushfire rescue
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Extreme adventures volume 2
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2010.
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After trying to save a prize bull from being stolen by rustlers, Sam Fox finds himself trapped in the moutains as a bushfire rages and he has to rely on Chainsaw, a rodeo bull, to find his way out.
14) Spider bite
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Extreme adventures volume 5
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Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2011.
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When Sam Fox's twin brothers, Harry and Jordan, are carried off in a runaway hot air balloon, Sam ends up trapped with them; the ride turns into a life-or-death struggle when Jordan is bitten by a Sydney funnel-web spider.
15) Man-eater
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Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
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2011.
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"Fourteen-year-old Sam is at a youth conference in Africa when the bus takes off without him, leaving him stranded. Within minutes he's attacked by an angry elephant and half-blinded by a spitting cobra. A young Masai tells Sam he needs medical attention--fast. But the only way to the hospital is through the Chui Hills. The same hills being terrorized by a ferocious, man-eating leopard"--
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