Synopsis A story featuring Vicky Austin, a character who also appears in such books as MEET THE AUSTINS, and A RING OF ENDLESS LIGHT. Vicky is thrilled when she is given the opportunity to visit her boyfriend, Adam Eddington, who is studying marine biology in Antarctica. As she travels via ship to Antarctica, Vicky is soon caught up in a romance with a Baltic Prince and a mystery involving nuclear waste.
As she tries to stay alive after being left on an iceberg in the Antarctic, sixteen-year-old Vicky recalls the series of events that brought her to the bottom of the world and involved her in a dangerous mystery.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1997-01-01 | | Edition Description: | Reissue |
| Size | | Height: | 7.3 in | | Width: | 4.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 5.6 oz |
Publisher's Note For her birthday, Vicky receives the gift of a trip to the Antarctic, where her friend Adam Eddington is working as a marine biologist. But as Vicky meets her fellow travelers, it quickly becomes clear that some of them are not what they seem. Vicki's trip into adventure becomes a journey into icy danger.
Vicky Austin, the poetry-writing heroine of four of the Newbery Medalist's previous novels, finds herself caught in a web of political intrigue in this exotic, multilayered thriller. "This is a story that is perfectly seasoned with just the right amount of everything: intrigue, romance, coming-of-age angst".-- Kirkus Reviews, pointer review.
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