Race to the South Pole
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Chapter Book · Ages 7–10 · 2016 · Est. 2.5 hour read

Race to the South Pole

By Kate Messner, Kelley McMorris (Illustrator)

Book #4 in the Ranger in Time series

A young boy named Jack Nin stows away on a ship headed to Antarctica to help his family's struggling market garden.

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160 pages· 16,089 words· Est. 2.5 hour read
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Ranger, a time-traveling golden retriever, finds himself on a treacherous expedition to Antarctica. Alongside Jack Nin, a stowaway turned cabin boy, they face deadly ice, killer whales, and fierce blizzards. As they race against a rival explorer to reach the South Pole, survival becomes the ultimate challenge. Can Ranger and Jack overcome the odds in this frozen wilderness?

From the publisher

Ranger, the time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training, is back! This time, he joins a dangerous expedition to the South Pole!Ranger, the time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training, joins an early twentieth-century expedition journeying from New Zealand to Antarctica. He befriends Jack Nin, the stowaway turned cabin boy of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s ship. They’re racing against a rival explorer to reach the South Pole, but with unstable ice, killer whales, and raging blizzards, the journey turns into a race against time… and a struggle to stay alive.

At a glance
Format
Pages
160
Words
16,089
Reading age
7–10
Audience
Juvenile Reader
Lexile
700L
Themes & topics
Books about dogsBooks about explorersBooks about 1900-1949Books about adventure and adventurersBooks about arctic and antarctic
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Book details

Reading levels
ATOS
4.7
F&P level
~Q
AR points
2
AR interest level
MG
AR quiz
183261
Publication
Published
June 28, 2016
First published
July 1, 2016
Edition
Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9780545639255

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