Petrel leaned on the rail, watching the ice cave and stamping her feet for warmth. The berg came closer. That's when she saw him. Laid out on the ice like a dead fish, with a scattering of snow covering his face. A boy, where there should have been nothing but the memory of winter. A frozen boy.Twelve-year-old Petrel is an outcast, the lowest of the low on an ancient icebreaker that has been following the same course for three hundred years. In that time, the ship's crew has forgotten its original purpose and broken into three warring tribes, the Cooks, the Officers and the Engineers. Everyone has a tribe except Petrel, whose parents committed such a terrible crime that they were thrown overboard, and their daughter ostracised.But Petrel is a survivor. She lives in the dark corners of the ship, trusting no one, speaking to no one except two large grey rats, Mister Smoke and Missus Slink. That is, until a boy is discovered, frozen on an iceberg, and brought onto the...

When the spaceship colony Buzz Aldrin spots an ice planet, although it's no good for long-term habitation, it is a great place for a winter holiday! Armed with skis, snowboards and sledges, the children are taken for a fun-filled field trip, which quickly turns to disaster when an avalanche strikes. Luke, Yuri and Yasmin think that being trapped in an ice cave is bad enough, but then discover that actually they're inside the mouth of an enormous alien creature! Will the trio of young adventurers ever manage to escape? Or will they become the human equivalent of a frozen TV dinner?

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