Title Shackleton's stowaway / by Victoria McKernan.

Edition

First edition.

Publication Info.	New York : Knopf, [2005]
	©2005

Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1084085~S1

Location	Call No.	Status
Naper Blvd. Teen Fiction	TEEN MCKERNAN	AVAILABLE

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Description	317 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Audience	740L Lexile
Note	740L Lexile
Study Program	Accelerated Reader MG 4.8 12 86105
Note	Accelerated Reader MG 4.8 12 86105
Subject	Blackborow, W. Perce, 1894-1949 -- Fiction.
	Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922 -- Fiction.
	Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922 -- Juvenile fiction.
	Survival -- Fiction.
	Stowaways -- Fiction.
	Adventure stories.
	Survival -- Juvenile fiction.
	Stowaways -- Juvenile fiction.
	Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction -- Juvenile fiction.
	Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Fiction.
	Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Juvenile fiction.
Local Subject	REBECCA CAUDILL AWARD [2007 NOMINEE].
Genre	Young adult fiction.
ISBN	0375826912

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