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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"1842. Stranded on Deception Island in the South Atlantic, her whaling captain husband lost at sea, Karina is destitute and desperate. Disguised as a cabin boy, she stows away on a British ship. But Karina is about to get a nasty surprise. As she grows closer to ship's surgeon Joseph Hooker, Karina and the rest of the crew find themselves pushed to the limits both physically and emotionally as conditions worsen onboard. Engulfed in the chillingly...
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Once again the mysterious box takes the golden retriever Ranger back in time, and he finds himself on Robert Falcon Scott's ship, the Terra Nova, headed for Antarctica, where his mission is to save Jack Nin, a Chinese-Maori stowaway from New Zealand, from the blizzards, unstable ice, and the other hazards that lie ahead for the doomed expedition.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Description
A fictionalized account of the adventures of eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow, who stowed away for the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition and, after their ship Endurance was crushed by ice, endured many hardships, including the loss of the toes of his left foot to frostbite, during the nearly two-year return journey across sea and ice.
Author
Series
Survival tails volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"A group of sled dogs must race to survive during a perilous journey across Antarctica"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
In this haunting thriller, journalist Michael Wilde is sent by his editor on an assignment to Antarctica. There, while Michael works at the South Pole, two frozen bodies are lifted from the ocean floor. However, these bodies - a nurse of Florence Nightingale and a member of the Light Brigade - carry a curse in their blood, one which causes them to rise from the dead
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Once again the mysterious box takes the golden retriever Ranger back in time, and he finds himself on Robert Falcon Scott's ship, the Terra Nova, headed for Antarctica, where his mission is to save Jack Nin, a Chinese-Maori stowaway from New Zealand, from the blizzards, unstable ice, and the other hazards that lie ahead for the doomed expedition.
Author
Pub. Date
p2009
Description
Apsley "Cherry" Cherry-Garrard shares his adventures as the youngest member of Robert Scott's expedition to Antarctica in the early twentieth century, during which he and Edward Wilson try to learn the evolutionary history of emperor penguins. Includes historical notes.