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Four teenagers win United Nations scholarships to spend the summer studying at an Arctic wildlife research station in East Greenland . They think they will be studying reindeer ecology however things change rapidly when they discover some mysterious old bones. The bones turn out to be from a prehistoric wooly mammoth. The only problem is that the bones are fresh! Join these teenagers on their dangerous journey across the arctic ice to an undiscovered valley containing thermal vents, ice caves and a long lost population of mammoths.

Read this book and you'll discover how the author uses SCIENCE to make the story more interesting and exciting:

  *Experience icebergs calving

  *Survive an arctic hurricane

  *Fly an ultralite trike

  *Learn about mammoth behavior

    and ecology

*Discover some of the indigenous
people of the arctic

If you'd like to learn more about the wooly mammoth check out these sites:

http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/woollymammoth/

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/expeditions/siberia/

http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=5&DocID=287

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