himalaya mountains

Sixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy outsider.

Provides information about the Himalayas, a mountain range that stretches from China's border, south to India, and west to Afghanistan, discussing their formation, climate zones, plants and animals, and people, and reviewing the history of exploration of the Himalayas.

On the northwestern frontier of India, Conway was a passenger on a plane taken over by a native pilot and never heard of again. What Conway found in Shangri-La makes the story.

John and Philippa Gaunt, expecting their lives to return to normal after their mother gives up her djinn powers, are drawn into a desperate quest to find five fakirs who hold the keys to the world's fate after its luck tips wildly out of balance.

Asks the reader to choose the path of the plot in a story about a mountain climber's disappearance from an expedition searching for the Abominable Snowman.