Arctic Star

Author(s): Tom Palmer

Reading Age 7-9 - SEN - Secondary

Multi-award-winning author Tom Palmer returns with a thrilling naval adventure inspired by the incredible history of the Second World War Arctic convoys.


Winter 1942. Teenagers Francis, Joseph and Stephen are Royal Navy recruits on their first mission at sea during the Second World War. Their ship is part of an Arctic convoy sailing to Russia to deliver supplies to the Soviets.


The convoys have to navigate treacherous waters, sailing through a narrow channel between the Arctic ice pack and German bases on the Norwegian coast. Faced with terrifying enemy attacks from both air and sea, as well as life-threatening cold, gales and pack ice, will all three boys make it home again?

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Tom Palmer was a reluctant reader as a child and credits articlesabout football with getting him into reading. He went on to become abookseller and then worked in reader development. He is well knownfor his hugely successful football fiction for Puffin, and is one ofBarrington Stoke's top?selling authors, writing about both sport andhistory with great appeal. He travels all over the UK visiting schoolsand working with charities, and is well loved across the book trade.

General Fields

  • : 9781781129715
  • : Barrington Stoke Ltd
  • : Barrington Stoke Ltd
  • : 0.01
  • : July 2021
  • : {"length"=>["19.8"], "width"=>["13"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Tom Palmer
  • : Paperback
  • : Tom Clohosy Cole
  • : English
  • : 823.92
  • : 208
  • : YXZW