A Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic

Two starred reviews!

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 “gripping—and sometimes gut-wrenching—adventure tale” (Shelf Awareness, starred review) 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 an ice floe one hundred miles from the shore of the continent. An eighteen-year-old American, Clara has told the crew she’s twenty-one years old and 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.

About the author

Yi Shun Lai lives in Southern California, and she can talk to you forever about plants and animals and deserts both hot and cold. She volunteers for ShelterBox, an international disaster relief organization, and was once invited to be a crew member aboard an Antarctic cruise line. She's the author of novels Not a Self-Help Book: The Misadventures of Marty Wu and A Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic and memoir Pin Ups. You can read her essays in Shondaland and Brevity. Find her on the web at TheGoodDirt.org.

Product details

• Authors: Yi Shun Lai, Yi Shun Lai
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 13 to 17
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.02.2025
• EAN: 9781665937771
• ISBN: 978-1-6659-3777-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Girls & Women, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Action & Adventure / Survival Stories, Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage), People & places (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls and women, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Historical / Exploration & Discovery