**Full of thrilling high-octane action, this is the second in an explosive new action-adventure middle grade series. Perfect for fans of _Alex Rider_ , _CHERUB_ and _Mission: Impossible_.** When an armoured train with a top secret cargo is hijacked by terrorists in the Austrian Alps, and an avalanc
Ice Breaker
β Scribed by Tanner, Lian
- Book ID
- 107682367
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 386 KB
- Series
- Hidden 1
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Petrel leaned on the rail, watching the ice cave and stamping her feet for warmth. The berg came closer. That's when she saw him. Laid out on the ice like a dead fish, with a scattering of snow covering his face. A boy, where there should have been nothing but the memory of winter. A frozen boy.
Twelve-year-old Petrel is an outcast, the lowest of the low on an ancient icebreaker that has been following the same course for three hundred years. In that time, the ship's crew has forgotten its original purpose and broken into three warring tribes, the Cooks, the Officers and the Engineers. Everyone has a tribe except Petrel, whose parents committed such a terrible crime that they were thrown overboard, and their daughter ostracised.
But Petrel is a survivor. She lives in the dark corners of the ship, trusting no one, speaking to no one except two large grey rats, Mister Smoke and Missus Slink. That is, until a boy is discovered, frozen on an iceberg, and brought onto the...
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