Danger Guys On Ice

Danger Guys #5

by Tony Abbott, Joanne Scribner (Illustrations)

While attempting to have a relaxing afternoon on the ski slopes, our Indiana Jones-style heroes discover a prehistoric ice man. And the deeper they go into a cavernous tunnel, the deeper they're pulled into a mad plot to take over the world with an army of prehistoric men. This sounds like a scheme only the Danger Guys can undo. Or can they? ALA Booklist said of the first two books in the series, "If third graders could write adventure books, they might have written these. . . . Struggling new readers will find the books exciting."

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Tony Abbott (born 1952) is an American author of children's books. His most popular work is the book series The Secrets of Droon, which includes over 40 books. He has sold over 12 million copies of his books and they have been translated into several other languages, including Italian, Spanish, Korean, French, Japanese, Polish, Turkish, and Russian. He has also written the bestseller Firegirl.

Abbott was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1952. His father was a university professor and had an extensive library of books which became one of Abbott's first sources of literature. When he was eight years old, his family moved to Connecticut where he went through elementary school and high school.

Abbott attended the University of Connecticut, and after studying both music and psychology, decided to study English and graduated from the University of Connecticut with a bachelor's degree in English literature. He attended the workshops of Patricia Reilly Giff to further develop his writing after college.

Abbott currently lives in Trumbull, Connecticut, with his wife, two daughters, and two dogs. Tony had one brother and two sisters.

Reviews

[Books Kids Like · Rating 4 out of 5]

Noodle goes with Zeek's family to Mine Mountain Lodge to celebrate Zeek's birthday. As soon as they get there, Zeek wants to ride the ski lift up and make one run down the slope before the party starts. Before the guys can decide what to do, a strange looking clown comes down from the lift. When Zeek asks him how the ski conditions are, he mutters the word "dangerous" and rushes away. Well, the Danger Guys love danger so Zeek pulls Noodle onto the ski lift and off they go. Suspended fifty feet in the air, the ski lift’s cable breaks, and the guys plunge into the deep snow. Zeek's skis go down the mountainside without him, and Noodle’s skis won’t slide because he forgot to wax them. As they trudge down the slope on foot, they are caught in a blizzard. Next, they find themselves running for their lives as an avalanche rumbles down the mountain. They escape death by falling into a deep ravine. Under the ice, they find a frozen caveman. A strange rumbling shakes the cave and splits the ice over the caveman’s face. The Danger Guys escape flying icicles and rocks by squeezing into a pizza-sized hole. With their legs dangling in the caveman’s cave, they hear something humming the tune to an old TV show. An explosion blasts the guys into a wall where they discover mining hats with lanterns that still work, and a mining car barreling down the rails at them. The guys end up in an underground laboratory with Mr. Vazny, aka Dr. Morbius, aka Dr. Chill. Zeek and Noodle try, once again, to foil the madman's plans to destroy Mayville.
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