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Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A gorgeously illustrated book all about the Arctic and Antarctic, for young animal and conservation enthusiasts. Enter the world of the Arctic and Antarctic for an incredible journey around Earth's icy poles. Polar bears, penguins, and ice glide across the pages of this colourful book, which combines gorgeous illustrations and photos to help young enthusiasts learn all about the Arctic and Antarctic. From icy rivers to Antarctic volcanoes, they'll...
62) The lost photographs of Captain Scott: unseen photographs from the legendary Antarctic expedition
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
" Do you have digestion problems due to stress? Do you have problems with authority? How many alcoholic drinks do you consume a week? Would you rather be a florist or a truck driver? These are the questions that decide who has what it takes to live at South Pole Station, a place with an average temperature of -54°F and no sunlight for six months a year. Cooper Gosling is adrift at thirty, unmoored by a family tragedy and floundering in her career...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
The harrowing true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry -- with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter -- in the tradition of David Grann, Nathaniel Philbrick, and Hampton Sides. In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three year expedition aboard the good ship Belgica with dreams of glory. His destination was the uncharted end...
65) Frozen planet II
Publisher
BBC Earth
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Life in the extreme. In a fragile world of beauty and hostility, nature finds a way to survive and thrive. Sir David Attenborough explores a planet on the brink of major change.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"In 1910, Captain Robert Scott prepared his crew for a trip that no one had ever completed: a journey to the South Pole. He vowed to get there any way he could, even if it meant looking death in the eye. Then, not long before he set out, the telegram arrived: "Proceeding to Antarctic - Roald Amundsen." What was to be an expedition had become a race. One hundred and eight years later, Captain Louis Rudd readied himself for a similarly grueling task:...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Flora the pig ditches the sedentary life on the farm for an adventure in Antarctica, where she escapes the knife and lives her dream of pulling a sled with a team of dogs.".
Author
Series
Whiteout volume 2
Publisher
Oni
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Carrie Stetko is a U.S. Marshal on the trail of a murderer hiding somewhere in the frozen wastes of Antarctica, in a work presented in graphic novel format.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
In the Antarctic, every March since the beginning of time, the quest begins to find the perfect mate and start a family. This courtship will begin with a long journey - a journey that will take them hundreds of miles across the continent by foot, one by one in a single file. They will endure freezing temperatures, in brittle, icy winds and through deep, treacherous waters. They will risk starvation and attack by dangerous predators, under the harshest...
Author
Publisher
Reservoir Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
"Bernadette Fox es famosa. Para Elgin, su marido y gurú de Microsoft, es una esposa con mucho carácter. Para las madres del colegio privado de Seattle adonde lleva a su hija es una deshonra. Para el gremio de arquitectos es un genio, y para Bee, su hija adolescente, es sencillamente mamá. Esta historia comienza cuando Bee llega a casa con excelentes notas. Sus padres le habían prometido que podría escoger el regalo soñado, y Bee decide que quiere...
Author
Series
Survival tails volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"A group of sled dogs must race to survive during a perilous journey across Antarctica"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"As a boy he preferred reading sea stories to doing homework and, at age 16, became an apprentice seaman. Subsequently, Ernest Shackleton's incredible journeys to the South Pole in the early 1900s made him one of the most famous explorers of modern times. His courage in the face of dangerous conditions and unforeseeable tragedies reveal the great leader that he was. His historic 1914 journey aboard the Endurance has all the drama of an action movie"--...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Bernadette Fox, a loving mom, becomes compelled to reconnect with her creative passions after years of sacrificing herself for her family. Bernadette's leap of faith takes her on an epic adventure that jump-starts her life and leads to her triumphant rediscovery.
78) It looks like us
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Shy high school junior Riley Kowalski is spending her winter break on a research trip to Antarctica, sponsored by one of the world's biggest tech companies. She joins five student volunteers, a company-approved chaperone, and an impartial scientist to prove that environmental plastic pollution has reached all the way to Antarctica, but what they find is something much worse ... something that looks human. Riley has anxiety--ostracized by the kids...
79) Fast Ice
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the early days of World War II, the infamous German Luftwaffe embark upon an expedition to Antarctica, hoping to set up a military base to support their goal of world domination. Though the military outpost never comes to fruition, what the Nazis find on the icy continent indeed proves dangerous...and will have implications far into the future. In the present day, Kurt Austin and his assistant Joe Zavala embark for the freezing edge of the world...
80) Whiteout
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko is the only law-enforcement officer assigned to Antarctica. Carrie is on the verge of shipping out before the really bad weather hits, when she is confronted with a mysterious murder that sounds like a riddle: how'd a lone corpse find its way to the middle of an ice field, as though dropped from a great height? And what does this have to do with the prologue about a Soviet fighter jet crashing some decades earlier? Along...
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