Voyage of Ice by Michele TorreyReading level: grades 4-7
If you ever thought sailing and whaling are glamourous and romantic, like Nick and Dexter Robbins, then you must experience the brutal telling of their treatment aboard the Sea Hawk, how they are lost at sea, and how they try to survive the winter in the frozen arctic. Fifteen year old Nick, the son of a whaling ship captain and his brother can't wait to go to sea. In what may be a hasty decision, they end up aboard the Sea Hawk and suffer punitive and cruel treatment from vindictive Captain Thorndike. It is Nick's positive and hopeful traits and promise to save the captain's daughter, that help him and his brother face a menacing ship hand, freezing weather, and starvation. This well researched book by Michele Torrey will keep you riveted to the end.
Other books by Michele Torrey in the Chronicles of Courage series: Voyage of Plunder and Voyage of Midnight.
