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He’s a bit selfish and makes some impulsive mistakes, but he genuinely wants to be a good guy. He’s a little too urbane for his age and experience - he quickly transforms from high school dropout to fine-dining connoisseur, and I’ve never met a teenager as well-read as Davy - but other than that he acts like a normal kid. Jumper, by Steven Gould, is an action-packed exciting adventure about a likeable teenager who has an awesome superpower. At first Davy lives for himself, happy to be away from school and his father, but when a terrorist attack affects him personally, he decides to use his talent to get revenge. His new skill, the ability to instantly transport himself to any place he’s ever visited, helped him achieve the freedom he always desired. Soon Davy learned that he could control his teleportation, so he left home and started a new life in New York City. Both times Davy ended up in his favorite place - the local public library. The second time was when a trucker tried to rape him. The first time Davy jumped was when his dad was beating him. The Dyatlov Pass mystery is one of the most perplexing mysteries in the international history of mountaineering, and probably the most controversial forensic crime case in Russia. Strange last photographs taken by the hikers and high levels of radiation found on some of their clothes have led to decades of speculation over what really happened. The student hikers fled without proper clothing and boots to a ravine at the base of the mountain, where it seems they didn't die from hypothermia alone, but from traumatic violent injuries and burns. Three weeks after the incident, their abandoned but strangely intact tent was found, slashed open from the inside. February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers perished in -30° under mysterious, gruesome circumstances in the Ural mountain range, on the slope of Mount Kholat Syakhl, also referred to as "Dead Mountain" or "1079". 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