Race to the Frozen North

Informationen zum Autor Catherine Johnson is a screenwriter and bestselling author of several books for children and young adults. Shortlisted for the 2020 UKLA Book Awards, Race to the Frozen North is a perennial bestseller with sales of over 40,000 to date. Her acclaimed novel Sawbones won the Young Quills Award for Historical Fiction, and The Curious Tale of the Lady Caraboo was nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal and the YA Book Prize. Catherine is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. || Katie is a freelance illustrator recently graduated from Falmouth University. Having grown up in Cornwall, and also in the middle-east, Katie takes inspiration from her travels and surroundings to create her illustrations. Her work deals with both narrative and information and often combines the two. Klappentext "We made it!" I cried. "We're here! The North Pole! We're on the top of the world! The first men ever to stand here in all of history." When orphan Matthew Henson ran away from his violent stepmother to find a new life in the big city, no one could have predicted that he would become the first man to reach the North Pole. A little luck and a lot of hard work led to a life of adventure on the high seas and in the Arctic, but back home in America his achievements were ignored due to the colour of his skin. Race to the Frozen North tells his remarkable true story. Zusammenfassung A thrilling fictionalised account of the life of Matthew Henson, the first African-American man to travel to the North Pole, from the Carnegie-nominated author Catherine Johnson.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Catherine Johnson
• Con la collaborazione di: Katie Hickey (Illustrazione), Katy Hickey (Illustrazione)
• Editore: Barrington Stoke
• Lingue: Inglese
• Raccomandazione d'eta': 9 anni
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781781128404
• ISBN: 978-1-78112-840-4
• Pagine: 104
• Serie: 9 to 12
• Categorie: Libri per bambini e per ragazzi > Libri per bambini fino a 11 anni; JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism, JUVENILE NONFICTION / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General, True stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage), Interest age: from c 8 years, For reluctant or struggling readers (children / teenagers), For reluctant readers (children), Arctic Ocean, Children’s / Teenage fiction: True stories told as fiction