In this novel set in 1914, 18-year-old Clara is determined to prove that she is as capable as any man and enlists in an ill-fated, all-male expedition to Antarctica.---from the publisher
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A teen’s fight for suffrage turns into one of survival when her crew’s Antarctic expedition ship gets stuck in the ice in this historical novel told in journal entries perfect for fans of Gary Paulsen and The Downstairs Girl.
November 1914.
Clara Ketterling-Dunbar is one of twenty-eight crew members of The Resolute—a ship meant for an Antarctic expedition now marooned on ice one hundred miles from the shore of the continent. An eighteen-year-old American, Clara has told the crew she’s a twenty-one-year-old Canadian. Since the war broke out, sentiment toward Americans has not been the most favorable, and Clara will be underestimated enough simply for being a woman without also giving away just how young she is. Two members of the crew know her nationality, but no one knows the truth of her activities in England before The Resolute set sail.
She and her suffragist sisters in the Women’s Social & Political Union were waging war of a different kind in London. They taught Clara to fight. And now, even marooned on the ice, she won’t stop fighting for women’s rights…or for survival. In the wilderness of Antarctica, Clara is determined to demonstrate what a woman is truly capable of—if the crew will let her.---from the publisher
336 pages 978-1-6659-3776-4 Ages 12 and up
Keywords: historical fiction, gender roles, Antarctica, ship, survival, wilderness, journal entries, disaster, girls and women, main character female, 12 year old, 13 year old, 14 year old, self reliance, 20th century
