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The Doldrums

Nicholas Gannon

20151 pagesabout 5–10 minutes
2015
first published
  • 2015HarperCollins Publishers Limited · ENGISBN 9780008149413
  • 2015HarperCollins Publishers · ENGISBN 9780062320964
  • 2015HarperCollins Publishers · 340 pages · ENGISBN 9780062320940
  • 2015HarperCollins Children's Books · 340 pages · ENGISBN 9780008149390
  • 2017HarperCollins Publishers Limited · ENGISBN 9780008149406
  • 2018HarperCollins Publishers · 368 pages · ENGISBN 9780062320957
  • 2019Can Çocuk Yayınları · 344 pagesISBN 9789750740824
  • 2015HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio · 1 pagesISBN 9781504647960
FunnyWhimsicalShort read

An eccentric like all Helmsleys, eleven-year-old Archer escapes his overprotective mother and recruits two friends, Oliver and Adelaide, to help him plan a rescue of his long-lost grandparents, world-famous explorers who disappeared atop an iceberg in the Antarctic.

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MoodPlayfulBittersweet
HumourComic

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Written forMiddle grade

When and where

ThemesFriendship
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