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As the weather grows wilder and the ice caps melt, Arctic bears starve, dragons awake, the earth goddess Gaia becomes restless, and Alexa, the daughter of best-selling author David Rain, uses her special abilities in an attempt to save the world from the forces of evil.

When Aero Horizon 16 crashes in the Arctic, eight children emerge from the wreckage to find themselves alone and surrounded, not by ice, but by a mysterious and deadly jungle full of carnivorous plants and predatory birds--the other five hundred people from the plane are gone, not necessarily dead, but taken by something that lives in the jungle. Horizon is the debut middle grade novel for Scott Westerfeld.

"Ryan Keene and his sea lion, Hansel, are members of the US Navy's Marine Mammal Program, which sounds exciting but rarely involves any real danger. Mostly they are responsible for recovering lost objects from the ocean floor. That all changes they travel to the perilous Arctic, where polar bears stalk the ice and killer whales prowl the water. But even at the ends of the Earth, the most dangerous predator is man."--Back cover.