Now that the snow has melted I can resume reading the Teen Book Club book for January. I had just started Peak by Roland Smith when the temperature decided to plummet and the days of snow and ice arrived. Somehow reading about a fourteen year old boy preparing to climb Everest (with plenty of descriptions of blizzards, ice walls, and cold air) had me shivering regardless of the inside temperature.Other titles that are now safe to read...
Ice Drift by Theodore Taylor - two Inuit brothers caught on an ice floe while hunting fight for survival in the brutal elements.
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George - a young girl escaping an unwanted marriage finds herself stranded in the Alaskan wilderness.
Shackleton's Stowaway by Victoria McKernan - a fictionalized account of a young boy who finds himself part of the ill-fated real life Antarctic expedition on the ship Endurance and the nearly two year return journey over sea and ice.
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