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To the Top! Climbing the World's Highest Mountain
Sydelle Kramer
Paperback (Random House Books for Young Readers, March 31, 1993)Illus. in full color. Here is the gripping story of Hillary and Norgay's perilous ascent of Mount Everest as they battled snow and ice slides, whipping winds, and the grim knowledge that 19 others had died in the same attempt.
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To the Top!: Step into Reading : a Step 4 Book
Sydelle Kramer
eBook (Random House Books for Young Readers, Aug. 28, 2013)Illus. in full color. Here is the gripping story of Hillary and Norgay's perilous ascent of Mount Everest as they battled snow and ice slides, whipping winds, and the grim knowledge that 19 others had died in the same attempt.
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Submarines
Sydelle Kramer
eBook (Random House Books for Young Readers, March 26, 2014)Young readers are in for the most exciting trip of their lives as they venture into a nuclear submarine! While touring the vessel from bow to stern, they learn about the history and mechanics of subs, their military and scientific uses, and the incredible discomfort–and danger–of life onboard. Illustrated with photographs, this is easy-to-read, high-interest nonfiction at its most compelling!
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Submarines
Sydelle Kramer
Paperback (Random House Books for Young Readers, May 24, 2005)Young readers are in for the most exciting trip of their lives as they venture into a nuclear submarine! While touring the vessel from bow to stern, they learn about the history and mechanics of subs, their military and scientific uses, and the incredible discomfort–and danger–of life onboard. Illustrated with photographs, this is easy-to-read, high-interest nonfiction at its most compelling!
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Basketball's Greatest Players
Sydelle Kramer
Hardcover (Random House Books for Young Readers, Nov. 11, 1997)Whose hands were so big he held the basketball like a grapefruit? Which center singlehandedly changed the way defense was played? From Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Larry Bird and Michael Jordan, young hoops fans can read about eleven legendary players in this exciting look at basketball's greatest slam-dunking, hoop-hanging superstars.
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To the Top! Climbing the World's Highest Mountain
Sydelle Kramer
Hardcover (Random House Books for Young Readers, Jan. 27, 2004)Illus. in full color. Here is the gripping story of Hillary and Norgay's perilous ascent of Mount Everest as they battled snow and ice slides, whipping winds, and the grim knowledge that 19 others had died in the same attempt.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Hockey's Greatest Players
Sydelle Kramer
Paperback (Random House Books for Young Readers, Jan. 19, 1999)Did you know Bobby Orr was once considered too small to play hockey? Or that Jacques Plante was so poor as a kid, he had to learn how to knit? Hockey's greatest players were kids once too! This exciting Step into Reading/reg/ book takes a look at the greatest players--from Gordie Howe to Bobby Hull to Wayne Gretzky--in one of the fastest, roughest, and most popular professional sports--ice hockey.
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Tiger Woods
Sydelle Kramer
Paperback (Random House Books for Young Readers, June 10, 1997)Presents a biography of the professional golfer, who at the age of twenty-one, became the first person of color and the youngest player to win the Masters Golf Tournament
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Basketball's Greatest Players
Sydelle Kramer
Paperback (Random House Books for Young Readers, Nov. 11, 1997)Whose hands were so big he held the basketball like a grapefruit? Which center singlehandedly changed the way defense was played? From Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Larry Bird and Michael Jordan, young hoops fans can read about eleven legendary players in this exciting look at basketball's greatest slam-dunking, hoop-hanging superstars.
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Baseball's Greatest Pitchers
Sydelle Kramer
Paperback (Random House Books for Young Readers, Feb. 25, 1992)With illus. & photos. From Walter Johnson, the shy farmboy who threw "little white bullets," to modern-day superstars like Nolan Ryan, the strikeout king, here are lively, colorful portraits of the all-time greatest magicians of the mound.
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TY COBB: BAD BOY OF BASEBALL
Sydelle Kramer
eBook (Random House Books for Young Readers, Oct. 26, 2011)Veteran sports writer S. A. Kramer recounts the on-the-field triumphs and off-the-field troubles of the tormented "Georgia Peach," perhaps the most hated man ever to play baseball.
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Adventure in Alaska
Sydelle Kramer
Paperback (Random House Books for Young Readers, Oct. 19, 1993)Chronicles how Libby Riddles and her team of dogs won the world's longest and toughest dogsled race, the Iditarod, despite dangerous conditions--hungry wolves, killer moose, and frigid temperatures. Original.
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