Race to the Frozen North - Johnson, Catherine
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"When eleven-year-old Matthew Henson ran away from his cruel stepmother to find a new life in the big city, no one could have predicted that he would become the first man to reach the North Pole. With a little luck and a lot of hard work, Matthew found a life of adventure on the high seas and in the Arctic. But back home in America his achievements were largely overlooked because he was Black. Race to the Frozen North tells his remarkable true story"--

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"When eleven-year-old Matthew Henson ran away from his cruel stepmother to find a new life in the big city, no one could have predicted that he would become the first man to reach the North Pole. With a little luck and a lot of hard work, Matthew found a life of adventure on the high seas and in the Arctic. But back home in America his achievements were largely overlooked because he was Black. Race to the Frozen North tells his remarkable true story"--
Autorenporträt
Catherine Johnson is a screenwriter and bestselling author of several books for children and young adults. Race to the Frozen North is a perennial bestseller in the UK. Her acclaimed novel Sawbones won the Young Quills Award for historical fiction, and Catherine is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She currently lives in Hastings, England.