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Binding: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Label: HarperTeen
Manufacturer: HarperTeen
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: January 01, 2007
Publisher: HarperTeen
Reading Level: Young Adult
Release Date: January 02, 2007
Studio: HarperTeen
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
I have been in love with Titus Oates for quite a while now—which is ridiculous, since he's been dead for ninety years. But look at it this way. In ninety years I'll be dead, too, and the age difference won't matter.
Sym is not your average teenage girl. She is obsessed with the Antarctic and the brave, romantic figure of Captain Oates from Scott's doomed expedition to the South Pole. In fact, Oates is the secret confidant to whom she spills all her hopes and fears.
But Sym's uncle Victor is even more obsessed—and when he takes her on a dream trip into the bleak Antarctic wilderness, it turns into a nightmarish struggle for survival that will challenge everything she knows and loves.
In her first contemporary young adult novel, Carnegie Medalist and three-time Whitbread Award winner Geraldine McCaughrean delivers a spellbinding journey into the frozen heart of darkness.
Rating:
- Umm, no.
I hated this book.
At first, I liked it. I thought it was pretty good, pretty interesting. But as I kept reading, I began to think how WEIRD it really was. Sym is one STRANGE girl. WHAT is her obsession with Titus Oates? it certainly makes her a unique heroine, but for me, it made me think she was literally insane. She is not normal. I don't know why Sigurd ever fell for her. Too weird. I couldn't relate with her at all, since she was such an odd duck.
The whole Uncle Victor ... Read More
Rating:
- An insatiable lust for the Antarctic
Fourteen year-old Sym is a classic young adult protagonist - the partially deaf social outcast who loses herself in intellectual pursuits and gets the boy in the end. Sym is obsessed with the white darkness of Antarctica, which is the favorite subject of her stand-in father, the wannabe adventurer Uncle Victor. Uncle Victor and Sym share a private world of science and history which makes Sym's outward life more bearable, especially after the death of her father.
As the story opens, Uncle ... Read More
Rating:
- A ripping good adventure and survival story
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 thrills ... Read More
Rating: - So far so good.
I just recieved this and it is very nice so far, very interesting. I hope it stays that way.
Rating:
- 2008 Printz Award Winner :-(
I am forcing myself to read this book for my job. I'm nearly half way through and i can hardly make myself go any farther. The book has an intersting premise and the author has talent which is made clear buy her engaging style. The characters are just not likeable. The main character Sym comes off as a nut, and her uncle Victor is just creapy. I understand that the whole social outsider thing, i was one myself in school. But come on, a character who is so delusional and obsessed and cripplingly shy has the ... Read More
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The White Darkness
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Binding: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Label: HarperTeen
Manufacturer: HarperTeen
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: January 01, 2007
Publisher: HarperTeen
Reading Level: Young Adult
Release Date: January 02, 2007
Studio: HarperTeen
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
I have been in love with Titus Oates for quite a while now—which is ridiculous, since he's been dead for ninety years. But look at it this way. In ninety years I'll be dead, too, and the age difference won't matter.
Sym is not your average teenage girl. She is obsessed with the Antarctic and the brave, romantic figure of Captain Oates from Scott's doomed expedition to the South Pole. In fact, Oates is the secret confidant to whom she spills all her hopes and fears.
But Sym's uncle Victor is even more obsessed—and when he takes her on a dream trip into the bleak Antarctic wilderness, it turns into a nightmarish struggle for survival that will challenge everything she knows and loves.
In her first contemporary young adult novel, Carnegie Medalist and three-time Whitbread Award winner Geraldine McCaughrean delivers a spellbinding journey into the frozen heart of darkness.
Average Rating:
Rating:
- Umm, no.I hated this book.
At first, I liked it. I thought it was pretty good, pretty interesting. But as I kept reading, I began to think how WEIRD it really was. Sym is one STRANGE girl. WHAT is her obsession with Titus Oates? it certainly makes her a unique heroine, but for me, it made me think she was literally insane. She is not normal. I don't know why Sigurd ever fell for her. Too weird. I couldn't relate with her at all, since she was such an odd duck.
The whole Uncle Victor ... Read More
Rating:
- An insatiable lust for the AntarcticFourteen year-old Sym is a classic young adult protagonist - the partially deaf social outcast who loses herself in intellectual pursuits and gets the boy in the end. Sym is obsessed with the white darkness of Antarctica, which is the favorite subject of her stand-in father, the wannabe adventurer Uncle Victor. Uncle Victor and Sym share a private world of science and history which makes Sym's outward life more bearable, especially after the death of her father.
As the story opens, Uncle ... Read More
Rating:
- A ripping good adventure and survival storyFourteen-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 thrills ... Read More
Rating:
- So far so good.I just recieved this and it is very nice so far, very interesting. I hope it stays that way.
Rating:
- 2008 Printz Award Winner :-(I am forcing myself to read this book for my job. I'm nearly half way through and i can hardly make myself go any farther. The book has an intersting premise and the author has talent which is made clear buy her engaging style. The characters are just not likeable. The main character Sym comes off as a nut, and her uncle Victor is just creapy. I understand that the whole social outsider thing, i was one myself in school. But come on, a character who is so delusional and obsessed and cripplingly shy has the ... Read More
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