An enormous boom wakes Artem from his sleep. He discovers that a reactor at the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl has exploded. With radiation everywhere, his family is forced to evacuate their town of Pripyat. But not everyone can go, and Artem's beloved dog Estas is left behind. Learning the fate of the abandoned animals, Artem mounts a dangerous rescue mission into a nuclear wasteland. Designed for Striving Readers.

Peak Marcello goes to Mayanmar to climb one of the most isolated mountains in the world in this thrilling new novel from bestselling author Roland Smith. After conquering the mountains in Afghanistan, Peak Marcello goes to Myanmar, a country that has been in the grips of a brutal military regime for more than fifty years, to visit Alessia. When he's invited to climb Hkakabo Razi, one of the most isolated mountains in the world, Peak can't pass up...