Avery, Tom

Can a mysterious sea creature save eleven-year-old Jamie's very sick twin brother?.

Can a mysterious sea creature save eleven-year-old Jamie's very sick twin brother?.

Can a mysterious sea creature save eleven-year-old Jamie's very sick twin brother?.

Eleven-year-old Kaia, who has felt emotionally isolated since her brother's suicide, befriends a wild boy who mysteriously appears at her London school, finding a way to communicate with him despite his being mute.

The author provides an account of his experiences in 2005 trying to re-create the controversial 1909 expedition by U.S. Naval Commander Robert Peary, his companion Matthew Henson, and four Inuit men, who used dogsleds to reach the North Pole in thirty-seven days, a time many have said was impossible.