Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.
What the judges said: McCaughrean’s control of language and style ensures that this novel, with its original and ambitious plot, produces a fast-moving adventure story.
It’s an outstanding survival fantasy that explores the pain of adolescence. The descriptive passages of the frozen Antarctic wastes are bone chillingly real and the gradual unfolding of this pacey story builds to a satisfying climax.
When she is taken on a mystery expedition by her eccentric uncle Victor, Sym can't believe her luck. Destination Antarctica - the very place she's always wanted to visit. But Victor has other plans, more sinister than Sym could possibly imagine. Could it be that Titus, the one who perished in that very place, will be the means of her survival?
Geraldine McCaughrean has long been a fine novelist; The White Darkness makes her a great one as well. Wickedly funny and diabolically clever ... this has to be one of the most remarkable novels for children published in the last fifty years.' Nicholas Tucker
'A breathtakingly fine novel.' Lindsey Fraser, The Bookseller
'The White Darkness is simply brilliant, totally original, always surprising... McCaughrean, as always, writes like a dream.' Wendy Cooling
'A dazzling, pitiless story about Antarctica. McCaughrean's imagination is fierce, tireless, unpredictable.' The Observer
'The White Darkness is as good as it gets.' Independent on Sunday
'A very disturbing, very dark teen-read Lady Fanciful (Blog)
ISBN: 9780192726186
Publication date: 07/09/2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
| ISBN: | 9780192726186 |
| Publication date: | 7th September 2006 |
| Author: | Geraldine McCaughrean |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |
| Suitable for: | 11+ readers, 13+ readers |
| Genres: | Adventure Stories |
| Recommendations: | eBooks |
Geraldine McCaughrean is one of today's most successful and highly regarded children's authors. She has won the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children's Book Award (three times), the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Smarties Bronze Award (four times) and the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award. Geraldine lives in Berkshire with her husband, daughter and golden retriever, Daisy. Read more about the author here. Anne Fine on Geraldine McCaughrean: 'I reckon Geraldine McCaughrean knocks the socks off every other children's writer today. Everything she does is different and everything works – look at her list of prizes. She must write ...
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