Loyalty is so excited to welcome Yi Shun Lai and Lillie Lainoff for A Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic! This event will be held digitally via Crowdcast and is free to attend. Click here to register for the event. You can order the authors' books from our website and there will also be an option to snag the book during the event.

A teen’s fight for suffrage turns into one of survival when her crew’s Antarctic expedition ship gets stuck in the ice in this historical “gripping—and sometimes gut-wrenching—adventure tale” (Shelf Awareness, starred review) told in journal entries perfect for fans of Gary Paulsen and The Downstairs Girl.

November 1914.

Clara Ketterling-Dunbar is one of twenty-eight crew members of The Resolute—a ship meant for an Antarctic expedition now marooned on an ice floe one hundred miles from the shore of the continent. An eighteen-year-old American, Clara has told the crew she’s twenty-one years old and Canadian. Since the war broke out, sentiment toward Americans has not been the most favorable, and Clara will be underestimated enough simply for being a woman without also giving away just how young she is. Two members of the crew know her nationality, but no one knows the truth of her activities in England before The Resolute set sail.

She and her suffragist sisters in the Women’s Social & Political Union were waging war of a different kind in London. They taught Clara to fight. And now, even marooned on the ice, she won’t stop fighting for women’s rights…or for survival. In the wilderness of Antarctica, Clara is determined to demonstrate what a woman is truly capable of—if the crew will let her.

Yi Shun Lai is the author of A Suffragist’s Guide to the Antarctic, a young adult historical adventure. Her writing has appeared in Brevity, Shondaland, and more; and she teaches in the MFA program at Bay Path University. She is also the author of a women’s contemporary novel, Not a Self-Help Book; The Misadventures of Marty Wu; and a memoir, Pin Ups. You can find her on the web at thegooddirt.org

Lillie Lainoff is a fencer, coach, and the founder of Disabled Kidlit Writers. Her short stories are featured in The Los Angeles Review and the upcoming YA anthology, THESE BODIES AIN’T BROKEN, and her non-fiction published in The Washington Post. She received her B.A. from Yale University and her M.A. in Creative Writing Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia. ONE FOR ALL, her debut novel, was named a Best Book of 2022 by NPR.

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Yi Shun Lai and Lillie Lainoff for A SUFFRAGIST'S GUIDE TO THE ANTARCTIC **NOW VIRTUAL**

Yi Shun Lai and Lillie Lainoff for A SUFFRAGIST'S GUIDE TO THE ANTARCTIC NOW VIRTUAL