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Title:
Shackleton's stowaway
Personal Author EPSB:
Victoria. McKernan
Summary:
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.
Year Published:
2006
Physical Description:
317 p. : maps ; 18 cm.
Reading Grade level:
4.6
Age Interest level:
Gr. 6-12.
Grade Interest level:
Young Adult.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader MG 4.8 12.0 86105

Gr. 7+

YRCA 2008
Awards:
YRCA 2008 Senior Division Nominee
Personal Subject:
Blackborow, W. Perce, 1894-1949-Fiction.

Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922-Fiction.
Corporate Subject:
Endurance (Ship) -- Fiction.
Conference Subject:
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917) -- Fiction.
Subject:
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc -- Fiction.

Adventure stories.

Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction.

Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Fiction.

Survival -- Fiction.

Adventure fiction.

Stowaways -- Fiction.

Historical fiction.
Geographic Term:
Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Fiction.

Antarctica -- Exploration -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780440419846
Publisher:
New York : Laurel-Leaf Books, [2006].
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