The girl who rowed the ocean

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Lucy is looking for adventure. She hatches an ambitious plan to row across the Atlantic Ocean. She imagines being visited by whales and wandering seabirds, enjoying shooting stars and moon bows out on the open waves. Her family rallies round to help her prepare for the journey, loading her boat Izzy with enough supplies for 3000 miles of rowing. While her classmates at school follow Lucy’s adventure from afar, learning about the oceans, plastic pollution and wildlife, out at sea Lucy must face the challenges of storms, seasickness and sore bottoms all alone whilst discovering she is capable of more than she ever imagined.

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‘An inspirational ocean adventure’ –Bear Grylls

Lucy wants to explore the world, and do something daring and difficult. But people laugh at her when she hatches a plan to row across the Atlantic Ocean.

So her family rallies round to help prepare for the journey, loading her boat with supplies for 3,000 miles of rowing. Her school friends follow her from afar, learning about the ocean, its wildlife and pollution.

Alone at sea, Lucy faces seasickness, storms and a very sore bottom, not to mention close encounters with ships and a humpback whale. Yet there are also the joys of wandering seabirds, shooting stars and magical sunsets, as she finds she is capable of more than she ever imagined. Step aboard and join Lucy on her life-changing adventure to become the girl who rowed the ocean.

The ocean-going follow-up to the bestselling The Boy Who Biked the World trilogy.

Weight 0.234 kg
Dimensions 20.3 × 12.7 × 2.3 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

280

Language

English

Edition

Paperback original

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

Children – juvenile / Code: J