Showing Ice Drift by Theodore Taylor

Paperback. Pub Date: 2006 Pages: 240 Publisher: Sandpiper The year is 1868 and fourteen-year-old Alika and his younger other. Sulu are Hunting for seals on an ice Floe attached to their island in the Arctic. Suddenly the ice starts to shake. and they hear a loud crack-the terrible sound of the floe eaking free from land. The boys watch with horror as the dark expanse of water between the ice and the shore rapidly widens. and they start drifting south -away from their home. their family. and everything they've ever known. Throughout their six-month-long journey down the Greenland Strait. the others face bitter cold. starvation. and most frightening of all. vicious polar bears. But they still remain hopeful that one day they'll be rescued. This thrilling new adventure story from bestselling author Theodore Taylor is a moving testament to the bond between others-and to the stre...