Books with author Sandra Athans

What's more dangerous than scaling Mount Everest? For mountaineer Pete Athans, the answer lies in the ancient kingdom of Mustang, a remote part of the Asian nation of Nepal. Long-abandoned caves built high into steep cliffs contain amazing treasures―and pose incredible dangers. Reaching these "sky caves" safely takes guts, smarts, and luck. And then there's the question of what to do with a two-thousand-year-old human skull. . . From 2007 to 2012, Pete explored Mustang's sky caves with a team that included scientists, mountain climbers, and even two children. They found mummies, murals, manuscripts, and other priceless artifacts. Follow Pete on his dangerous trips to the sky caves and discover the secrets the caves revealed.

The journey up Mount Everest is never easy. Climbers risk their lives as they struggle around jagged towers of ice, over snow-covered boulders, and across gaping crevasses. Pete Athans knows these dangers well. He has climbed Mount Everest fourteen times and reached the summit seven times. What is it like to climb the highest mountain on Earth? In this book, you'll follow Pete to the top―and learn about his adventures along the way.

The Common Core standards were created to help readers get the most out of every book they read, inside and outside of the classroom. Training students to understand how to read critically is highly important and will help prepare them for college, career, and life beyond that. This engaging volume asks readers to look closely at individual passages of text, analyze their meaning, and look at the evidence that supports their meaning. Quiz questions create an interactive experience for readers, allowing them to get the most out of what they read.

What's more dangerous than scaling Mount Everest? For mountaineer Pete Athans, the answer lies in the ancient kingdom of Mustang, a remote part of the Asian nation of Nepal. Long-abandoned caves built high into steep cliffs contain amazing treasures—and pose incredible dangers. Reaching these "sky caves" safely takes guts, smarts, and luck. And then there's the question of what to do with a two-thousand-year-old human skull. . . From 2007 to 2012, Pete explored Mustang's sky caves with a team that included scientists, mountain climbers, and even two children. They found mummies, murals, manuscripts, and other priceless artifacts. Follow Pete on his dangerous trips to the sky caves and discover the secrets the caves revealed.

The ability to recognize and analyze the structure and ideas behind a piece of writing is an enormous part of the Common Core Standard for Reading. The Common Core was developed to give readers and students the tools they need to succeed in school and in a career situation. This volume contains poetry by Robert Frost and Edgar Allan Poe and science writing excerpts, with quiz questions and advice from experts on how to best read and interpret the work.

The Common Core Standards for Reading were developed to help students read and analyze a piece of writing more effectively, giving them the tools they need to succeed on college applications, in college, and in the world of employment. One important factor of the reading standards is the ability to determine point of view and the purpose of a piece of writing. This volume provides guided lessons using excerpts from well-known pieces of writing, Core-focused quiz questions, and advice from an expert reader on how students can get the most out of their reading.

The Common Core standards were created to help readers get the most out of every book they read, inside and outside of the classroom. Training students to understand how to read critically is highly important and will help prepare them for college, career, and life beyond that. This engaging volume asks readers to look closely at individual passages of text, analyze their meaning, and look at the evidence that supports their meaning. Quiz questions create an interactive experience for readers, allowing them to get the most out of what they read.

One important part of the Common Core Standards for Reading is the ability to read two (or more) separate pieces of writing and then find their similarities and differences. This volume, penned by two teachers, provides that important piece of the Common Core Standards by including several lengthy pieces of writing that students can read and enjoy and then study, with a new eye for comparing and contrasting, using the provided interactive quiz questions and tips from an expert reader.