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How Angel Peterson Got His Name
And Other Outrageous Tales of Extreme Sports
By Paulsen, Gary
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-38572-949-9 978-0-38590-090-4
- Publisher
- Lamb Random
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2003
Gr 5-8 Paulsen accounts for his 13th year "of wonderful madness" when he and his friends tried to shoot a waterfall in a barrel, break the world record for speed on skis, hang glide with an Army surplus parachute, and perform other daredevilish stunts. Readers will be drawn to the term "extreme sports" but the story is more accurately one generation's vers...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2003
This is Paulsen's take on extreme sports, 1950s-style, when a few supplies from the army surplus plus equal measures of guts and teenage lunacy were all it took to attempt breaking world speed records. The book is awash in nostalgia and goes off on many tangents but never loses its cranked-up pace and comic tone as it relates...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
