The Riddle of the Frozen Phantom: Part 5

By MARGARET MAHY

Sophie had patiently worked her way right through that jam-packed, higgelty-piggelty, mish-mash of Antarctic photographs until she had entirely emptied the drawer ... or at least, she thought she had.

Yet here she was, touching this clicking, cold shape; this whatever-it-was which must have been left and lost for years and years.

Scrabbling busily, she got a grip on it. Gently, she drew it out into the light of day.Dangling from her dusty fingers was a yellowish-white pendant milky tear carved from a bone.

Whalebone, perhaps, thought Sophie. It was threaded on a thin strip of leather rather like a long bootlace.

The greenish light, filtering through the ivy that half-covered the upstairs window, seemed to love this pendant, stroking it, then sinking into it.

Sophie loved it too .. loved it so much that she immediately hung it around her neck and then, leaping across the room, stared at herself in the dusty mirror above the old dressing table.

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: $12.95

Age group: 9-11 years

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