Shackleton's stowaway

Resource Information

The work Shackleton's stowaway represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Shackleton's stowaway

Statement of responsibility

by Victoria McKernan

Creator

• McKernan, Victoria

Subject

• Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction
• Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Fiction
• Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Juvenile fiction
• Blackborow, W. Perce, 1894-1949 -- Fiction
• Blackborow, W. Perce, 1894-1949 -- Juvenile fiction
• Endurance (Ship) -- Fiction
• Endurance (Ship) -- Juvenile Fiction
• Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917 -- Fiction
• Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917 -- Juvenile fiction
• Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922 -- Fiction
• Action and adventure fiction
• Stowaways -- Fiction
• Stowaways -- Juvenile fiction
• Survival -- Fiction
• Survival -- Juvenile fiction
• Young adult fiction
• Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922 -- Juvenile fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Juvenile Fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• Young adult fiction
• Action and adventure fiction

Language

eng

Summary

A fictionalized account of the adventures of eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow, who stowed away for the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition and, after their ship Endurance was crushed by ice, endured many hardships, including the loss of the toes of his left foot to frostbite, during the nearly two-year return journey across sea and ice

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

Intended audience

740

Intended audience source

Lexile

Interest level

• MG
• 6-8

LC call number

PZ7.M4786767

LC item number

Sh 2005

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Reading level

• 4.8
• 6.1

Study program name

• Accelerated Reader AR
• Reading Counts RC

Target audience

juvenile