Extreme Adventures
Extreme Adventures is a best-selling action series for 8- to 12-year-olds, known and loved by boys and girls alike, and perfect for reluctant readers. With short chapters, fast-paced action and fascinating animal facts, these explosive books are each set in a different country. From anacondas in the Amazon to a volcano in Borneo, the escapades of fourteen-year-old Sam Fox are colourful, lively, tense, surprising and never anything short of extreme! Kids will be hooked, so luckily there are twelve books to collect in this fantastic local series.
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- ISBN-13: 9780143303701
- Published: 29 September 2008
- Format: Paperback, 144 pages
- RRP: $14.95
Sam Fox is on a field trip with his uncle in the Amazon, when he's swept over a waterfall and lands in an underground lake. There he discovers a fortune in gold. He's rich! But things aren't that simple. There's an enormous anaconda lurking in the...
- ISBN-13: 9780143302209
- Published: 29 August 2005
- Format: Paperback, 132 pages
- RRP: $14.95
'Help me!' I gasped. 'My name is Sam Fox and I'm trapped in a truck . . . There's a bushfire all around me!' It's the holidays and Sam Fox has gone to the high country to stay with his grandparents. While trying to stop cattle rustlers from steal...
- ISBN-13: 9780143302230
- Published: 29 August 2005
- Format: Paperback, 132 pages
- RRP: $14.95
'I didn't want to die, and I especially didn't want to be killed by a crocodile. But there was no escape.' A robber has kidnapped Sam Fox and his cousin Nissa during a tropical cyclone. When the getaway car crashes into the raging Crocodile River,...
- ISBN-13: 9780143303725
- Published: 31 August 2009
- Format: Paperback, 140 pages
- RRP: $14.95
YOU CAN'T CHANGE DIRECTION WHEN YOU'RE AIRBORNE. ALL I COULD DO WAS PART MY LEGS SO MY SKIS LANDED ON EITHER SIDE OF THE DEVIL. BUT NOT OUT OF RANGE OF THOSE FEARSOME JAWS. SNAP! Out on the ski fields, Sam Fox dodges a Tasmanian devil only to see ...
- ISBN-13: 9780143303718
- Published: 02 March 2009
- Format: Paperback, 132 pages
- RRP: $14.95
THE GRIZZLY ROSE UP ON ITS HIND LEGS AND LET OUT A FEARSOME ROAR, HALFWAY BETWEEN THE BARK OF A DOG AND THE BELLOW OF A BULL. WE WERE DEAD MEAT . . . Sam Fox is on a trip to North America with his cub scout pack when their bus crashes down a can...
- ISBN-13: 9780143303206
- Published: 03 March 2008
- Format: Paperback, 144 pages
- RRP: $14.95
The whale flung itself onto the ice and came sliding up the slope on its belly. Straight towards Harry and me... Sam Fox is on holidays with his family in Antarctica when their ski plane crashes on the ice. As the unstable iceshelf cracks apart, S...
- ISBN-13: 9780143303213
- Published: 01 October 2007
- Format: Paperback, 144 pages
- RRP: $14.95
The leopard crouching in the bushes looked like something out of a nightmare. One ear was gone and so was one eye, and there was no fur on half its head. The mean glint in its remaining eye told me that it was the man-eater that had killed half th...
- ISBN-13: 9780143304418
- Published: 01 March 2010
- Format: Paperback, 156 pages
- RRP: $14.95
There isn't really a word to describe the noise a volcano makes when it erupts. You don't just hear it, you feel it. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! A class trip to Borneo starts off with a bang – a visit to a real-life volcano! But when Mount Bako erupt...
- ISBN-13: 9780143302223
- Published: 28 August 2006
- Format: Paperback, 144 pages
- RRP: $14.95
'I was lost in the desert. Without transport. Without water. Without a hope.' Sam Fox is on a caving expedition in the desert when the roof collapses, trapping his brother Nathan beneath tonnes of rubble. Nathan is in a bad way, and Sam's his only...
- ISBN-13: 9780143302216
- Published: 01 May 2006
- Format: Paperback, 144 pages
- RRP: $14.95
'Suddenly I was back in the blurry green undersea world. And the shark was there, too. Coming straight at me. Fast!' Sam Fox is on holidays at the Great Barrier Reef when he and a young Japanese tourist are swept off a coral shelf by a freak wave....
- ISBN-13: 9780143303046
- Published: 05 March 2007
- Format: Paperback, 144 pages
- RRP: $14.95
'My little brother lay in the bottom of the basket with his head slimed sideways, I took a closer look. Jordan's face was blue . . . ' When Sam Fox's twin brothers, Harry and Jordan, are carried off in a runaway hot-air balloon, Sam tries to save ...
- ISBN-13: 9780143304425
- Published: 30 August 2010
- Format: Paperback, 144 pages
- RRP: $14.95
Sam and his family are in New Delhi watching big brother Nathan make his international cricketing debut (he hits a six, of course) when a young pickpocket steals Sam's backpack. Sam gives chase and runs foul of the boss of a pickpocket gang, who's...
