mcmurdo station (antarctica)

"Near the South Pole, on a rock surrounded by ice, there is a small city called McMurdo Base. How did it get there? What is it like there? Ane why do people live in all that cold?"--Back cover.

Devastated when her dream of becoming a professional ballerina falls through, seventeen-year-old Harper Scott takes a job as a research assistant, wintering over at McMurdo, a U.S. science station at the tip of Antarctica where, for the first time, she considers other possible futures.