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| Title | : | The White Darkness |
| Author | : | Geraldine McCaughrean |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 373 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 2005 by HarperCollins Publishers |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Adventure. Fiction. Teen. Survival. Realistic Fiction. Contemporary |
Geraldine McCaughrean
Hardcover | Pages: 373 pages Rating: 3.48 | 4210 Users | 708 Reviews
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I have been in love with Titus Oates for quite a while now--which is ridiculous, since he's been dead for ninety years. But look at it this way. In ninety years I'll be dead, too, and the age difference won't matter. Sym 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. In her first contemporary young adult novel, Carnegie Medalist and three-time Whitbread Award winner Geraldine McCaughrean delivers a spellbinding journey into the frozen heart of darkness.
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| Original Title: | The White Darkness |
| ISBN: | 0060890355 (ISBN13: 9780060890353) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Sym |
| Literary Awards: | Michael L. Printz Award (2008) |
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Ratings: 3.48 From 4210 Users | 708 ReviewsWrite-Up Epithetical Books The White Darkness
So many people have loved this book... I think it's just not my thing. After the death of her father, 14-year-old Symone, excruciatingly shy hearing-impaired geek with an imaginary friend, is whisked away on a surprise trip to Antarctica by her Uncle Victor. From the start you can sense that something's not right here. Victor's acting fishy, lying to Sym about their destination, stealing her mother's passport so she can't come with them... and things just get bleaker and bleaker as the journeyNeed to think on this, but for now... Actual rating: 2.5 stars. "When I am old, I shall stand on street corners with a bullhorn and harangue passersby about the moral decline in uncles." ^^ I hope Sym lives up to this promise. "Moral decline in uncles" is definitely the best description for this book. And, trust me, the plot is a lot less exciting than I'm making it sound.Possible RTC
Fourteen-year-old Sym knows all there is to know about Antarcticathe landscape, the history, the explorers and how they survived (or didn't). Especially dear to her is Captain Oates of the failed Scott expedition of 1, in whom she confides all of her hopes, dreams, and fears within her head, a character all his own within the book. When her Uncle Victor surprises her with a trip down southway southshe is thrilled. But Victor is not telling her everything, and she eventually finds herself on the
A young girl named Symone is taken without her mother's permission by her "uncle" on a trip to the Antarctic. Uncle is obsessed with the idea of a world or worlds within the Earth and is convinced that the access portal to these worlds lies at the South Pole. Sym is a whole lot naive and completely too trusting of this uncle but as the story goes on she becomes more and more aware of how crazy her uncle is. The trip is dangerous with hazards you can't even imagine and is driven by the obsessed
I wavered over whether to choose "I really liked it" or "It was amazing" for this one, but I went with the four stars in the end because it's such a dark book in so many ways that I'm not sure I'd want to read it again. On the other hand, I might just to pick up on all the details I'd missed.The gorgeous yet narrator-appropriate language in this book, the amount of research that must have gone into it about Antarctica, just staggers me. It is possibly the weirdest book I have read all year, and
I read this when I worked in public libraries and it scarred me for life. Also, won't be visiting Antarctica any time soon.
I really am not an adventurous person. Moving to Englandhaving never lived on my own beforeaside, Im not the sort of person who enjoys embarking on expeditions. I took a trip up to Edinburgh back in October, and that was adventurous enough for me for a few months. These days, a train to Norwich is about as much adventure as I can muster. I read National Geographic and watch the Discovery Channel and soak up all these stories of adventure and exploration vicariouslybut I cannot imagine actually
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