with a penchant for trouble and an acid tongue

Lucetta's widowed friend

She's the top-ranked senior at her ultra-competitive Silicon Valley high school

simple language and sweet illustrations

Charlotte Atherton

A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier Holiday Cookbooks with a penchant for troubleFrom a snow swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, famed Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary spots a line of mysterious peaks dotting the horizon. In 1906, he names that distant, uncharted territory Crocker Land. Years later, two of Pearys disciples, George Borup and Donald MacMillan, take the brave steps Peary never did: with a team of amateur adventurers and intrepid native guides, they endeavor to reach this unknown land and fill in the