Climbing strong / by Jake Maddox.

Title:

ISBN:

9781496575241

9781496575296

Personal Author:

Maddox, Jake

Publication Information:

North Mankato, Minnesota : Stone Arch Books, [2019]

Physical Description:

91 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.

Summary:

Thirteen-year-old Mike Gordon cannot resist a dare, but climbing the school flagpole gets him into trouble not just at school, but with his parents, who are usually preoccupied with his younger sister who has muscular dystrophy; but when a family friend introduces him to rock climbing, Mike finds an outlet for his thrill-seeking behavior--and just maybe his parents will finally pay some attention to him.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader MG 4.2 1 199476

Subject Term:

Rock climbing -- Fiction.

Attention-seeking -- Fiction.

Parent and child -- Fiction

Siblings -- Fiction

Muscular dystrophy -- Fiction

Audience:

Decoding demand: 87 (very high) Semantic demand: 99 (very high) Syntactic demand: 86 (very high) Structure demand: 88 (very high) Lexile

Audience:

610L Lexile