[LM_NET] BOOK: The White darkness by McCaughrean

[Frederick Muller <mullinator52@GMAIL.COM>]

McCaughrean, Geraldine. The white darkness.HarperTempest, 2007
[978-0-06-089035-3//0-06-089035-5]

Sym is a smart girl who is obsessed with Antarctica and everything
available.  In fact she even imagines conversations with the on the
explorers, Titus Oates.  Even more obsessed than she is, is her Uncle who
wants to find Symme's Hole, an opening there to the center of the Earth.  Her
Uncle spends his life fortune arranging a trip to Antarctica with Stephanie
so he can trick people into going on a ill-fated trip to find Symme's Hole.
I found the first three quarters of this 373 page book to be very slow
reading but the excitement picks up when they get out on the ice and have a
hard fight against the harsh elements.  The conditions of their survival
make the book worth reading but I found Sym's imagining so many
conversations with her long-dead explorer "friend" a little tedious. He
becomes a little to real to her for my taste.


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Frederick Muller, Librarian
Halsted Middle School Library
Newton, NJ
mullinator52@gmail.com
My book reviews are compiled at http://www.mullersreviews.com
My book review blog is at http://MullerInTheMiddle.blogspot.com

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