- Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Deception, Juvenile fiction, Fiction
Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.
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Classical in form, grave, contemporary and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Geraldine McCaughrean
- First published
- September 1, 2005
- Pages
- 342
- Publisher
- HarperTempest, Oxford University Press, Hafo ren chu ban you xian gong si
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9780192726186
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**Geraldine McCaughrean** is a British children's novelist. She has written more than 170 books, including Peter Pan in Scarlet, the official sequel to Peter Pan commissioned by Great Ormond Street Hospital, the holder of Peter Pan's copyright. Her work has been translated into 44 languages worldwide.
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