This is a story about three women – a geologist, a composer, and a galley worker – who have taken jobs in Antarctica. As they each fall in love and into trouble, their lives become more and more entwined – until one crisis binds them in friendship for life.
“In this compelling novel, Bledsoe captures the deadly beauty of the southernmost continent….A well-balanced humdinger of a story keeps this unusual novel hurtling along like a skidoo on the ice."
-- Kirkus Reviews
A moment of simultaneous grace and injustice leads to the unraveling of three lives.
"Pound for pound, Bledsoe's books are hard to beat....Bledsoe, who seems incapable of a false or unwieldy sentence or motion...takes us there to the end of the journey one unflinching page at a time."
-- Kevin Killian
"A haunting and profoundly satisfying novel."
-- Lambda Book Report
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True stories of adventure in the wild.
"Layered, literary, and unflinchingly honest."
-- World Hum: Travel Dispatches from a Shrinking Planet
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Two sisters unveil the truth about their brother's disappearance.
"A powerful, moving novel, skillfully rendered and beautifully written."
-- Scott Mahood, Powell's Books
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Lori, an adult bicycle mechanic, learns to read --and much more.
Winner of the American Library Association Stonewall Award!
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"In an outstanding novella and...rich and satisfying stories, Bledsoe shows herself to be a smart and savvy writer.... In this tender work, Bledsoe perfectly evokes the healing power of the outdoors."
-- Publishers Weekly
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Armchair travel to Antarctica. Lots of photos!
"Bledsoe's enthusiasm for the wonders of Antarctica is absolutely contagious." --
VOYA
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Victoria saves an endangered continent.
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River wants to make the WNBA!
"Bledsoe cleverly avoids most of the cliches, not only by injecting lots of against-the-grain subplots, including River's hopelessly uncool parents, artists and latter-day hippies who don't believe in competition and eat bee pollen. The basketball scenes are well constructed and realistic, the humor is fresh, and the characters are believeable. Good fun for hoop girls and boys alike." --
Booklist
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A mountain lion prowls into an urban neighborhood.
"Bledsoe creates a winning protagonist in Izzie, whose keen observations, occasionally awkward outspokenness, and independence will appeal to readers, and whose extended family is a real treat." --
Kirkus Reviews
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Two girls survive in a mountain storm.
"The simplicity and intensity of this adventure will satisfy many children, particularly those who like Gary Paulsen's HATCHET." --
School Library Journal
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Ernie was hoping for a sleek new racing bike for his tenth birthday, not a big, secondhand, yellow clunker. He knew it was all his grandmother could afford, yet he was still disappointed -- and embarrassed to show it to his friends. But the laughter of the other kids doesn't stop Ernie from racing...or proving that it's determination, not the bike, that makes a winner.
“A heartwarming story about a nontraditional family, love, hard work, and friendship.”
– The Boston Sunday Globe
