TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson, Catherine,
AU  - Hickey,Katie
TI  - Race to the frozen North: the Matthew Henson story 
SN  - 9781781128404
AV  - PZ7.1.J646RAC 
U1  - 910.92 23
PY  - 2018///.
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Barrington Stoke
KW  - Henson, Matthew Alexander,
KW  - African American explorers
KW  - Biography
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Explorers
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Discoveries in geography
KW  - North Pole
KW  - Discovery and exploration
KW  - Arctic regions
KW  - Adventure
KW  - eflch
KW  - Creative nonfiction
KW  - High interest-low vocabulary books
KW  - ukslc
N1  - This book is also super readable (sticker of back cover); This book has a dyslexia-friendly layout, typeface and paperstock so that even more readers can enjoy it. It has been edited to a reading age of 8.
Interest age: 8-12
N2  - When orphan Matthew Henson ran away from his violent stepmother to find a new life in the big city, no one could have predicted that he would become the first man to reach the North Pole. A little luck and a lot of hard work led to a life of adventure on the high seas and in the Arctic, but back home in America his achievements were ignored due to the colour of his skin
ER  -