White Darkness

The white darkness : a novel / Geraldine McCaughrean. – 1st U.S. ed. – New York : HarperTempest, 2007, c2005.
373 p. ; 19 cm.
ISBN: 9780060890353 (trade)
Originally published: [Oxford] : Oxford University Press, 2005

1. Adventure fiction. 2. Antarctica --Fiction. 3. Deception --Fiction. 4. Oates, Lawrence Edward Grace, 1880-1912 -- Fiction. 5. Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Fiction. 6. Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction.

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Fourteen-year-old Symone struggles to survive in the coldest desert on earth, Antarctica. Adding to her trials are her traveling companions: a fanatic “uncle” obsessed with finding an entrance to the hollow earth and two confidence men. With friends like these, it’s no wonder that she relies on the companion of her imagination, Captain Lawrence Oates, who died on Scott’s expedition to the South Pole in 1912, for sound guidance.

This is a ripping good adventure and survival story that spooks the reader with enough spooky chills to simulate the Antarctic cold. It well deserves The Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature that it received in 2008 from the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association