The White Darkness

2008 Printz Award Winner

Fourteen-year-old Symone (Sym) knows just about everything there is to know about the coldest, bleakest place on earth: Antarctica. Socially awkward, suffering from a hearing impairment, painfully shy, Sym finds solace in an imaginary companion, legendary polar explorer Titus Oates, who died in an ill-fated 1911 expedition to the South…