Adrenalin Ride

Take It to the Xtreme #3

by Pam Withers

This is the third adrenalin-pumping outdoor sports adventure in the Take It to the Extreme series with best friends Peter and Jake. It's summer vacation, and when Ron, a former guide with Sam's Adventure Tours, invites Jake and Peter to help develop a mountain bike trail in in British Columbia, near the American border, the boys can't believe their luck. Or so they think. As they start working hard in an isolated park, the boys sense that Ron might not be telling the truth and they begin to question his motives. When Peter tells Jake about his misgivings, things start to heat up. Join the boys as they plunge into the mountain-biking descent of their lives.

176 pages, Paperback

Published September 4, 2004

About the author

Award-winning YA author Pam Withers -- a former outdoor guide, journalist and editor -- has written 21 sports and outdoor adventure books for teens. She has been nominated for three Red Maple Awards and numerous others. Besides her novels, she has written an athlete's biography and Jump-Starting Boys, a book for parents on getting boys to read. Pam lives in Vancouver, Canada, and tours North America extensively.

Reviews

[Landon · Rating 2 out of 5]

didnt love this book

[Cornmaven · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a fun book. Not great literature by any means, but I would definitely recommend it to boys who are into extreme sports, and who don't like to read. The storyline was interesting (two boys get hired to build a bike trail in a national park that spans America and Canada, only to find out that it's being financed and directed by drug smugglers for future drug smuggling). Lots of excitement, tension, moral dilemmas, etc. All turns out well in the end. Plus for kids who like these kinds of sports, it has enough scenes with the details and jargon that they would appreciate. The only disadvantage from a library collection standpoint is its small paperback size - might get lost amongst the hardcovers. However, easy to carry around for a kid.

[Hamilton Tyler · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall I enjoyed this book because i can relate to the topic. Peter and Jake had to build a mountain bike trail with Ron but they found drug runners. They then were chased my the drug runners on mountain bikes and tryed to escape down a river. Then a lightning storms starts a forest fire and they then have to escape into a lake. My favorite scene was when Peter and Jake had to jump off a cliff into a lake to escape the forest fire. I would recommend this book for anyone who enjoys the outdoors and likes adventure books.