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Geraldine McCaughrean | 3.74
Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature!
“Completely gripping.” —People
“Dazzling.”—The Observer
Geraldine McCaughrean—two-time Carnegie Medalist for Where the World Ends and Pack of Lies—takes readers on a spellbinding journey into the frozen heart of darkness with this lyrical, riveting, and imaginative young adult novel.
Symone "Sym" Wates is not your average teenage girl. She is obsessed with the Antarctic and... more Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature!
“Completely gripping.” —People
“Dazzling.”—The Observer
Geraldine McCaughrean—two-time Carnegie Medalist for Where the World Ends and Pack of Lies—takes readers on a spellbinding journey into the frozen heart of darkness with this lyrical, riveting, and imaginative young adult novel.
Symone "Sym" Wates 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. less 
Geraldine McCaughreanThe White Darkness is most appreciated, in my experience, by 14 year old girls who are still at a stage when they have a lively interior world (Source)
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Geraldine McCaughrean | 3.75
An extraordinary novel about the ordinary spiralling out of control. Robin Wooton decides to create the perfect wife by "educating" two foundling girls, selecting the one that conforms to his Rousseauian ideals to be his bride. However he is slow to make his choice, while the girls compete for him with increasingly desperate rivalry. McCaughrean brings 1790s England vividly to life, her unique humour and powers of characterisation evoking a hardyesque back drop to a timeless drama. more An extraordinary novel about the ordinary spiralling out of control. Robin Wooton decides to create the perfect wife by "educating" two foundling girls, selecting the one that conforms to his Rousseauian ideals to be his bride. However he is slow to make his choice, while the girls compete for him with increasingly desperate rivalry. McCaughrean brings 1790s England vividly to life, her unique humour and powers of characterisation evoking a hardyesque back drop to a timeless drama. less Geraldine McCaughreanHe adopted two girls with a view to keeping them and marrying whichever one turned out best – marrying off the one that didn’t turn out so well. Which is a really creepy idea. (Source)
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Geraldine McCaughrean | 4.18
It's 1893 and for Cissy and her family, a new life beckons on the prairies of Oklahoma. Along with other settlers, they travel to Florence - a town yet to be built - and prepare for business alongside the Red Rock Railroad track.
But the railroad company has other ideas. It wants to buy the land for itself - and when the settlers refuse to sell, the railroad boss swears his trains will never stop in Florence again.
Without the train, there is no way the town can survive. So Cissy, her friends, family, and neighbours resolve to stop that train, come what may - by fair... more It's 1893 and for Cissy and her family, a new life beckons on the prairies of Oklahoma. Along with other settlers, they travel to Florence - a town yet to be built - and prepare for business alongside the Red Rock Railroad track.
But the railroad company has other ideas. It wants to buy the land for itself - and when the settlers refuse to sell, the railroad boss swears his trains will never stop in Florence again.
Without the train, there is no way the town can survive. So Cissy, her friends, family, and neighbours resolve to stop that train, come what may - by fair means or foul. less Geraldine McCaughreanThere is, in fact, a town called Enid in Oklahoma which dates back to the land runs when everybody could, if they had a vehicle, run into Oklahoma and grab a piece of land. (Source)
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Geraldine McCaughrean | 4.00
Every summer Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to hunt birds.
But this summer, no one arrives to take them home.
Surely nothing but the end of the world can explain why they've been abandoned – cold, starving and clinging to life, in the grip of a murderous ocean.
How will they survive? more Every summer Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to hunt birds.
But this summer, no one arrives to take them home.
Surely nothing but the end of the world can explain why they've been abandoned – cold, starving and clinging to life, in the grip of a murderous ocean.
How will they survive? less Geraldine McCaughreanBut finding this tiny, couple of sentences about boys marooned on a sea stack…started me thinking. Whatever did they suppose had happened? (Source)
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Geraldine McCaughrean | 3.97
They called him Gou Tian, Sky Hook, the boy who flies. Then the Jade Circus offered him a chance to escape his enemies and travel throughout Kublai Khan's empire. But can he escape so easily and can he avoid even greater danger? more They called him Gou Tian, Sky Hook, the boy who flies. Then the Jade Circus offered him a chance to escape his enemies and travel throughout Kublai Khan's empire. But can he escape so easily and can he avoid even greater danger? less Geraldine McCaughreanFor those days, Kublai Khan was an enlightened invader who, when he invaded, didn’t just kill everybody but would take the cleverest ones and incorporate them into his government (Source)
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