A Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781665937764)

A teen's fight for suffrage turns into one of survival when her crew's Antarctic expedition ship gets stuck in the ice in this historical novel told in journal entries perfect for fans of Gary Paulsen and The Downstairs Girl.

November 1914.

Clara Ketterling-Dunbar is one of twenty-eight crew members of The Resolute--a ship meant for an Antarctic expedition now marooned on ice one hundred miles from the shore of the continent. An eighteen-year-old American, Clara has told the crew she's a twenty-one-year-old Canadian. Since the war broke out, sentiment toward Americans has not been the most favorable, and Clara will be underestimated enough simply for being a woman without also giving away just how young she is. Two members of the crew know her nationality, but no one knows the truth of her activities in England before The Resolute set sail.

She and her suffragist sisters in the Women's Social & Political Union were waging war of a different kind in London. They taught Clara to fight. And now, even marooned on the ice, she won't stop fighting for women's rights...or for survival. In the wilderness of Antarctica, Clara is determined to demonstrate what a woman is truly capable of--if the crew will let her.

Author: Yi Shun Lai
ISBN-10: 1665937769
ISBN-13: 9781665937764
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 02/13/2024
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.70w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/06/2023
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2023
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 01/01/2024
School Library Journal 02/01/2024 pg. 102
Shelf Awareness 02/23/2024