To the Ice

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Three children go on a polar expedition in this thrilling adventure story that blurs realism and imagination. Ida, Max, and Jack go to the creek one winter's day. While playing on an ice floe, they suddenly find themselves floating away--all the way to Antarctica, with just a box, a branch, and some sandwiches. "You probably don't think it's true, and we didn't either, not even while it was happening . . ." They find an old hut--luckily filled with cans of fishballs--meet penguins, and see extraordinary things. They learn the art of occupying themselves and being bored. And after testing their resources in the world's most dramatic landscape, they come home safe at the end of the day. "What shall we say about where we've been?" asked Max. "Tell the truth," I said. "We don't know." This epic chapter book absorbs the reader in a real-life make-believe adventure.