Climbing Mount Everest

By Brigitte Muir

Subjects: Juvenile literature, Readers (Primary), Mountaineering, Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)

Description: Literacy focus: vocabulary, identifying prefixes and suffixes, using descriptive words, decoding compound words, following a sequence of events, distinguishing fact from opinion, making observations. Social studies focus: gives a first-person account of climbing the world's highest peak.