What It's Like to Climb Mount Everest, Blast Off into Space, Survive a Tornado, and Other Extraordinary Stories

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What is it like to reach the top of the world's tallest mountain? To survive a shark attack? To fly with the US Air Force Thunderbirds? To find out, Jeff Belanger conducted interviews with twelve ordinary people who just happened to do extraordinary things-and then turned the interviews into adrenaline-packed, thrilling stories told in the first-person voices of the interviewees.  Includes WHAT IT'S LIKE…To Be Attacked by a Shark  *  To Save People from a Burning Building  *To Walk Across America  *  To Experience Combat  * To Fly with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds  *  To Survive a Tornado  *To Be Struck by Lightning  *  To Sail Through a Hurricane at Sea  *To Blast Off into Space  *  To Walk to the North Pole  *To Run Your First Marathon…and Run Fifty Marathons in Fifty States in Fifty Consecutive Days  *  To Lose Both of Your Legs to Frostbite…and Climb Mount Everest

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JEFF BELANGER has worked as a journalist and television host, and has authored a dozen books featuring interviews with people on a wide range of quirky topics. He's been a guest on more than 100 radio and television programs around the world. His other books for children include: Who's Haunting the White House? and The Mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle. To learn more, visit his Web site at: www.jeffbelanger.com.