Loved itit's got these amazing illustrations inside which I think really enhanced the story and it was just overall a really great and refreshing middle-grade story
The Doldrums (2015)
Others: Positive An eccentric like all Helmsleys, eleven-year-old Archer escapes his overprotective mother and recruits two friends, Oliver and Adelaide, to help him plan a rescue of his long-lost grandparents, world-famous explorers who disappeared atop an iceberg in the Antarctic.
- ISBN:
- 9780008149390
- Length:
- 340 pages
Genres: young adult
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