Shackleton's Stowaway
A fictionalized account of the adventures of eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow, who stowed away for the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition and, after their ship Endurance was crushed by ice, endured many hardships, including the loss of his toes to frostbite, during the nearly two-year return journey across sea and ice.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: blackborow, w. perce, shackleton, ernest henry, survival, stowaways [X], adventure and adventurers, historical fiction, survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc [X], antarctica, endurance (ship), imperial trans-antarctic expedition, adventure fiction, adventure stories, castaways
The Titanic
"A stowaway dog and the captain's cat forge an unlikely friendship as they race to protect three kittens, help their humans, and survive the sinking of the Titanic"--From publisher.
FIC
year:
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: titanic (steamship), survival, shipwrecks, dogs, cats, animals, stowaways [X], animal babies, historical fiction, animal fiction, survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc [X]