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Icebreaker by Lian Tanner
5.0
We picked up this somewhat older book at the library on a summer run.
I've loved non-fiction stories about expeditions to the Arctic (Sir Ernest Shackleton and Sir John Franklin) and Antarctic, so this book's cover caught my attention.
Visually it reminded me more than a little of the Jaws movie poster. My son read it, and said it was "pretty good." No explanation for why people turn on machines, just that they do, and life is miserable, ever after. Having once had a school assignment to make a pound cake the colonial American way, creaming the butter and sugar by hand -- it takes an hour(!!) -- my son could relate to non-electric appliance era misery.
The MC is a "Nothing Girl" who is free of the tribalism that has gripped the ship (three tribes - cooks, engineers and officers), because she belongs to no tribe. The secondary character is a boy who's been brainwashed by the anti-machinists to believe that the ship needs to be destroyed, and he's planted on the ice to be rescued and infiltrate the crew.
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I've loved non-fiction stories about expeditions to the Arctic (Sir Ernest Shackleton and Sir John Franklin) and Antarctic, so this book's cover caught my attention.
Visually it reminded me more than a little of the Jaws movie poster. My son read it, and said it was "pretty good." No explanation for why people turn on machines, just that they do, and life is miserable, ever after. Having once had a school assignment to make a pound cake the colonial American way, creaming the butter and sugar by hand -- it takes an hour(!!) -- my son could relate to non-electric appliance era misery.
The MC is a "Nothing Girl" who is free of the tribalism that has gripped the ship (three tribes - cooks, engineers and officers), because she belongs to no tribe. The secondary character is a boy who's been brainwashed by the anti-machinists to believe that the ship needs to be destroyed, and he's planted on the ice to be rescued and infiltrate the crew.
Visit my blog for more book reviews, free teaching materials and fiction writing tips: http://amb.mystrikingly.com/