Smith, Roland

Thousands of sea otters once lived in the cold, crystal clear waters of Prince William Sound,"Alaska's Emerald Jewel"-until disaster struck. A supertanker hit the rocks of Bligh Reef, pouring millions of gallons of crude oul into the sound. The dangerous ooze threatened all the animals living along the shore, especially the sea otter.Resuers flocked inot the small town of Valdez- there were injured otters as far as a hundred miles away.Can these otters be saved?.

Step-siblings Q (Quest) and Angela are thrust into the work of the U.S. Secret Service and the Israeli Mossad when Angela realizes she's being followed, and Q learns the secret about Angela's real mother, a former Secret Service agent who was supposedly killed by a terrorist group.

Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to participate in an "International Peace Ascent" in the Hindu Kush, with a team made up of under-eighteen-year-old climbers from around the world--but from the first something seems wrong, so when the group is attacked, and most of the climbers are either killed or kidnapped, Peak finds himself caught up in a struggle to survive, shadowed by the Shen, a mysterious snow leopard.

Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to climb Hkakabo Razi, one of the most isolated mountains in the world, but getting there involves a four-week trek through a tropical rainforest that is rife with hazards, which turns out to be more dangerous than summiting the mountain itself.

Alonzo's hunt for Jack's family intensifies; one slipup and Alonzo will find them, making sure no Osborne survives to testify against him.

Quest and his stepsister Angela are thrust into the dangerous world of the American Secret Service and the Israeli Mossad when they learn Angela's real mother was a former Secret Service agent who was killed by a terrorist group.

While accompanying his father on an expedition up the Amazon River to a jaguar preserve in Brazil, fourteen-year-old Jacob must contend with dangerous animals and fortune hunters.