In a plot similar to the traditional tale of Chicken Little, Loony Little fears that the polar icecap is melting and, along with other animals, travels to alert the Polar Bear Queen.
Kurt Austin and the NUMA Special Assignments Team face a daunting task--saving all life on Earth--when an anti-globalization group decides to send a message to the world's industrialized nations by artificially triggering a polar shift.
An introduction to the polar regions that includes information on the animals and people who live in the Arctic and Antarctic, the weather at each of the poles, the explorers who have traveled to the polar regions, and other related topics.
Discusses the lives, education, successes, and failures of such explorers as John Franklin, Robert Peary, Matthew Henson, Roald Amundsen, and Robert Falcon Scott as they ventured into the Arctic and Antarctic.