Trapped+in+ice

Trapped in ice's story:

This novel is about a Thirteen-year-old girl “Helen” is not entirely sure she is looking forward to spending the next six months on board the Karluk, a ship headed on an Arctic expedition. But after her father died, it is the only work her seamstress mother can find. The ship's hard-bitten captain, Robert Bartlett, must use all his skills when the Arctic Ocean begins an early freeze-over and the ship becomes trapped in ice. In the pages of her diary, Helen records the fate of the crew and her family as they leave the ship and try to make their way across shifting ice flows, through blinding blizzards and past polar bears to safety on solid land. As the trek proceeds, Helen learns a few things about her family, about friendship and about a remarkable strength she never knew she had. This story based on a true story, “ill-fated” Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913, //Trapped in Ice// is a riveting, fast-paced adventure set in a marvelous but brutal world of ice and snow.

By: Eric Walters

