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Bledsoe, Lucy Jane

The Antarctic Scoop

168 pp. | Holiday | December, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-8234-1792-1 $$16.95
(4) 4-6 Twelve-year-old Victoria, an aspiring astrophysicist, wins a trip to Antarctica in a contest sponsored by a land development company disguised as a kids' science website. Victoria is an independent, strong-willed protagonist in this contrived adventure story, which features some humorous e-mail exchanges with the runner-up in the contest and facts about the South Pole.
Reviewer: Sam Bloom

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