This was such a great book! If you went to High School in the 1980's, it is a MUST READ! A TOTAL MUST READ! Like, Totally!This is the story of Jennifer Niven McJunkin. She moved from her old town to a new one when she was just in forth grade, and she had to get used to her new town in Richmond, I...
The year was 1913, polar expeditions had become the Last Great Adventure, and the names of Scott, Peary, and Shackleton were household words. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, a lesser-known Arctic explorer, persuaded the Canadian government to fund an expedition that he hoped would raise him to the same pa...