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168 pp.
| Holiday |
December, 2003 |
TradeISBN 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.