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adventure novels by bestselling author Pam Withers
Pam Withers has written thirteen novels for teens, all bestsellers and three nominated for awards. Her work includes the 10-book Xtreme series in which 15-year-old best friends Jake and Peter share a burning desire to excel at as many extreme sports as they can. Inevitably, they land themselves in the middle of action-packed, adrenaline-pumping adventure while they’re at it.
“Pam’s books have wide appeal to boys and girls, to avid and reluctant readers, to teens and to younger children who are looking for a challenging high-interest book.”
— British Columbia Teachers’ Federation newsletter
 Coming fall of 2008:
Going Vertical
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| 2008 | | Youths make a difference! | | 10% of book sales in 2008 are being donated to the Spirit Bear Youth Coalition, www.spiritbearyouth.org. SBYC is the largest youth-led environmental initiative in the world.. | |
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| Mountainboard Maniacs |   |  | Best friends Jake and Peter have decided that mountain boarding is the best free-ride sport around. The only trouble is, both boys are hiding secrets from one another, and all three mountains they are training on are sleeping volcanoes that could wake up any time.
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| BMX Tunnel Run | |  | In between racing and dirt-jumping their BMX bikes, best friends Jake and Peter discover an astounding underground maze of old mining tunnels. Equipped with night-vision goggles, they get drawn into riding underground - defying a group of hostile riders and surviving unexpected tremors. As they attempt to race their bikes against time back up to daylight, Peter must come to terms with personal misfortunes threatening to suffocate all that he has come to think of as normal.
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| Dirt Bike Daredevils | |  | It takes a series of mishaps followed by a natural disaster to convince Peter, a freestyle maniac, and his buddy Jake to accept that successful dirt bikers understand their motorcycles inside and out.
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| Vertical Limits | |  | Jake is obsessed with solo climbing, Peter is trying to conquer his fear of heights, and a runaway girl climber they encounter seems to have a death wish.
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| Surf Zone | |  | A scuba-diving accident leaves Jake, Peter and a surfer girl stranded on a deserted island with surfboards as their only means of escape.
Nominee, 2007 Chocolate Lily Young Readers Choice Award
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| Peak Survival | |  | When their heli-snowboarding/skiing trip goes awry, the boys face a perilous descent back to civilization.
Shortlist, 2006 Chocolate Lily Young Readers Choice Award
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| Raging River | |  | Jake and Peter, age 15, kayak down 95 miles of raging whitewater to save a stranded rafting party.
Nominee, 2005 Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award
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| Wake's Edge | |  | Jake and Peter love being junior instructors at a wakeboard school across the lake from a community of environmentalists. But when Peter decides to encourage the wild streak in a rebellious hippie girl, community tensions erupt and the boys get more action than they bargained for.
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Camp Wild
Breathless
Daredevil Club