The White Darkness
Teen Zone Fiction- Main Level- McCaughrean
“I have been in love with Titus Oates for quite a while now—which is ridiculous, since he's been dead for ninety years.” So begins The White Darkness, this year’s recipient of the Michael L. Printz award for excellence in young adult literature.
Titus Oates, who joined Robert Falcon Scott’s exploration of Antarctica, has indeed been dead for ninety years, and his last breath was taken in the South Pole. Fourteen-year-old Sym has been hearing his voice in her head for quite some time; he is her dearest companion. No one else at her school wears hearing aids or dreams of Antarctica.
Sym’s dangerous exploration begins when a weekend trip to Paris with her Uncle Victor, the man responsible for Sym’s obsession with “the ice,” turns into a surprise visit to exactly that place. How generous! Until the camp of tourists is plagued with mysterious mishaps, and Sym finds herself unsure of who to trust and how to survive. Geraldine McCaughrean will mesmerize you with her eerie descriptions of adventure in “the last place on earth.”