Summary: Happy feet: Emperor Penguins from Antarctica each express their true love with a special heartsong of their own that expresses their very being. However, the misfit Mumble cannot sing. Instead he has an extraordinary talent to tap dance with almost magical energy and expression. Nevertheless, the leadership of the colony fearfully blames the young penguin's unorthodox ways for the lean fishing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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Viva, Frank
Summary: A boy and a mouse take a bumpy sea journey to the majestic expanses of the Antarctic, where they see the sights and meet new friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 VIVMarino, Gianna
Summary: "It's deep winter in the Antarctic and a little penguin baby waits in the cold and snow for its mama to return from her long journey to find food. But all the while, the baby is protected and kept warm by its papa, until Mama returns with food ... and love."--Publisher's webpage
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARMessner, Kate
Summary: Once again the mysterious box takes the golden retriever Ranger back in time, and he finds himself on Robert Falcon Scott's ship, the Terra Nova, headed for Antarctica, where his mission is to save Jack Nin, a Chinese-Maori stowaway from New Zealand, from the blizzards, unstable ice, and the other hazards that lie ahead for the doomed expedition.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MESSummary: An American geologist flies to Antarctica to participate in a project at the United States Research Base. Once there, he teams up with arctic guide Jerry Shepard and his best friend, Cooper. The scientist soon discovers that Shepard also has eight other valuable friends -- a pack of sled dogs he's worked with for years, who have rescued him from a number of tight spots. As the three men explore...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Eight 2006Robinson, Kim Stanley.
Summary: A group of radical environmentalists struggles to find a way to save the natural beauty of Antarctica from the politicians who are fighting for control of its natural resources.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBRiddle, A. G.
Summary: Dr. Laura Reynolds had a job she loved and the respect of her peers. One day, it all went away. She saw the wrong thing, a colleague's mistake. And to escape, he framed her. Laura's only option is to join a secretive research project in Antarctica, where she hopes to keep practicing medicine and one day get her life back. But soon after arriving, she realizes that things aren't what they seem...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC RIDHarrison, Payne.
Summary: In the near future, a Soviet-American geological expedition is drilling deep below the Ross Ice Shelf in the shadow of volcanic Mount Erebus. When an astouding discovery is made by the expedition, it leads to a confrontation between the two superpowers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARTrueit, Trudi Strain
Summary: Cruz Coronado is scrambling to complete the last piece of the cipher. His opportunity to recover his mother's world-changing formula is slipping away. But as Cruz has learned: true explorers must never give up.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: In 1914 England, eighteen-year-old American Clara lies about her age and citizenship to land a coveted spot on an Antarctic expedition, but when the crew is marooned on an ice floe, Clara's mission to advance the women's suffrage movement takes a back seat to survival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAIMiller, Sara (Sara F.)
Summary: "The pups go to Antarctica to get Bob some ice."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN MILMcCaughrean, Geraldine.
Summary: Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTempest 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC McCauSummary: Children learn about the the human skeleton. Other stories add to the collection.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2008
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Summary: In the early days of World War II, the infamous German Luftwaffe embark upon an expedition to Antarctica, hoping to set up a military base to support their goal of world domination. Though the military outpost never comes to fruition, what the Nazis find on the icy continent indeed proves dangerous...and will have implications far into the future. In the present day, Kurt Austin and his...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2021
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CUSKurtz, Christopher.
Summary: "Flora the pig ditches the sedentary life on the farm for an adventure in Antarctica, where she escapes the knife and lives her dream of pulling a sled with a team of dogs"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Children's Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KUROxley, Jennifer
Summary: "Peg and Cat are at the South Pole preparing to watch the ski race at the Animal Winter Games. Suddenly they spy the Penguins zooming downhill. CRASH! The Penguins apologize ("Snow problem," says Cat), but it seems that there is a problem: the Penguins keep slamming into things! So they all try again, with Peg shouting directions each time they come to a hurdle. "Go over! Go under! Go in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Entertainment 2016
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Summary: While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PATTrueit, Trudi Strain
Summary: "Amid assignments that take the Explorer Academy recruits from the iceberg-filled waters of Antarctica to the bone-dry deserts of Argentina, Cruz Coronado is scrambling to complete the last piece of the cipher. With Nebula agents and the elusive explorer spy still out there, his opportunity to recover his mother's world-changing formula is slipping away. But as Cruz has learned from his time...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2022
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Summary: Describes the quest of Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1914 attempt to be the first man to cross the Antarctic on foot, with sixty-nine sled dogs, a crew of twenty-eight, and a seventeen-year-old stowaway.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BONCharman, Katrina
Summary: "A group of sled dogs must race to survive during a perilous journey across Antarctica"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHASummary: True story of Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic adventures. Bound for Antarctica in 1914, Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, was trapped in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea. Ten months later, the ship sank, stranding Shackleton and his crew of 27. Based on the diaries and first person accounts of expedition members, the film tells of their ordeal and their 800-mile journey in an open boat across the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Home Entertainment 2002
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SHABrockmeier, Kevin.
Summary: All residents of the City have recently died, and they will remain in the City only as long as someone still living on Earth remembers them. On Earth, however, the population has been devastated by terrible pandemic. Laura Byrd, isolated at an Antarctic research station, is running low on supplies and has only her memories to comfort her. The people of the City realize Laura is the common...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COBDietrich, William
Summary: Twenty-six rugged adventurers become trapped for the winter at an Antarctic outpost, as a team of scientists must battle extreme conditions and subdue internal conflict to catch a killer among them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2001