The white darkness : a novel /
by Geraldine McCaughrean.
- 1st pbk. ed.
- New York, NY : HarperTeen, 2009, c2005.
- 373, 15 p. ; 19 cm.
Includes "extras" about writing and an interview with the author. Originally published: [Oxford] : Oxford University Press, 2005.
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.
Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in young adult literature from the American Library Association.