- Adventure stories, Adventure and adventurers, Secrets, Juvenile fiction
Peter is thrilled to join his parents on an expedition to Greenland, where his father studies global warming. Peter will get to skip school, drive a dogsled, and--finally--share in his dad's adventures.
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Contemporary, earnest, grave and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Rebecca Stead
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 332
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books, Listening Library (Audio), San Val
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307495471
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Rebecca Stead writes books for young people, including: ***The Experiment***, a middle-grade novel (with aliens); ***When You Reach Me*** (NYT bestseller, 2010 Newbery Medal and Boston Globe/Horn Book Award for Fiction); ***The List Of Things That Will Not Change*** (A 2020 Time Magazine Top Ten Children's Book of the Year); ***Liar & Spy*** (Winner of the Guardian Prize for Children's Fiction and a New York Times Notable Book for Children); ***First Light*** (a Junior Library Guild Selection and a New York Public Library Best Book for Teens); ***Goodbye Strange***r (A New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Book Review Notable Book for Children); ***Anything***, Illustrated by Caldecot
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