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Two Inuit brothers must fend for themselves while stranded on an ice floe that is adrift in the Greenland Strait.

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Very readable, interaction between characters and descriptions of relationships were well done. As an adventure story set primarily on an ice floe in the Greenland strait I found the characters' circumstances were not described nearly so worrisome, wet or as frightening as the first person memoirs I have read by men who faced similar circumstances and lived to tell the tale. I also found the relationship between the two brothers to be somewhat too simplistic to be believable. Two brothers one not even a teenager yet stranded together and the older one never seriously loses his temper with the younger one?
Brothers Alika and Sulu are hunting on an ice floe when it breaks apart from the land, forcing them to survive the long, cold winter on it alone.
A Great Book! i have read it 3 times!

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Author Theodore Taylor was born in Statesville, North Carolina on June 23, 1921. At the age of seventeen, he became a copyboy at the Washington, D. C. Daily News and was writing radio network sports for NBC in New York two years later. During World War II, he joined the merchant marines and earned a commission as an ensign in the U. S. Navy. He show more was recalled to active duty during the Korean War. In 1955, he became a press agent for Paramount Pictures and later became a story editor and an associate producer. He has written over fifty fiction and non-fiction books for young adults and adults. He has received numerous awards for his works including the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award for The Cay, the 1992 Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Young Adult Mystery for The Weirdo, and the 1996 Scott O'Dell Award for historical fiction for The Bomb. He died on October 26, 2006. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Fiction and Literature, Kids
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813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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PZ7 .T1286 .ILanguage and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresJuvenile belles lettres
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