Race to the Frozen North by Catherine Johnson

This book was a ‘Hot Contender’ for the Big Book Award 2020 shortlist.

About the Book:

Matthew Henson was simply an ordinary man. That was, until Commander Robert E. Peary entered his life, and offered him a chance at true adventure.

Henson would become navigator, craftsman, translator, and right-hand man on a treacherous journey to the North Pole. Defying the odds and the
many prejudices that faced him to become a true pioneer. This is his incredible and often untold story.

Published by Barrington Stoke

About the Author:

Catherine Johnson is a best-selling author of several YA and children’s books, including Sawbones which won the Young Quills Award for Historical Fiction, and The Curious Tale of the Lady Caraboo, which was nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal and the YA Book Prize. Catherine has been a Writer in Residence at Holloway Prison, a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at the London Institute and has mentored writers for the British Council.  She lives in Hastings.