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Series
Ranger in time volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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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.
4) Everland
Author
Language
English
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Description
In 1913, two seasoned explorers and one scientist (Napps, Millet-Bass, and Dinners) disembark the "Kismet" and row their dinghy toward an unmapped island that Napps plans to dub Everland. The sky turns dark almost as soon as the Kismet pulls away, leaving them caught in a violent storm without recourse. Dinners, the frail scientist with no field experience, becomes a burden to the two explorers, and as the numbing cold sets in, he begins to descend...
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1914 England, eighteen-year-old American Clara lies about her age and citizenship to land a coveted spot on an Antarctic expedition, but when the crew is marooned on an ice floe, Clara's mission to advance the women's suffrage movement takes a back seat to survival"--
11) Ice-cold heaven
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Describes the quest of Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1914 attempt to be the first man to cross the Antarctic on foot, with sixty-nine sled dogs, a crew of twenty-eight, and a seventeen-year-old stowaway.
Author
Series
Survival tails volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"A group of sled dogs must race to survive during a perilous journey across Antarctica"--
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of the First World War, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Antarctic expedition, determined to find his rightful place in the world of men. Aboard the expeditionary ship of his hero, the world-famous explorer James "Australis" Randall, Jonathan may live as his true self--and true gender--and have the adventures he has always been denied. But not all is smooth sailing: the war casts its long shadow over them all, and grief, guilt, and mistrust...