Ice Swords: An Undersea Adventure

Joan McGrath is a Toronto Board of Education library consultant.

The many junior readers who enjoyed James Houston’s earlier juvenile adventure titles, Frozen Fire and Black Diamonds, will be pleased at the reappearance in print of Matthew and Kayak, Arctic adventurers of the younger set. In Ice Swords: An Undersea Adventure, the lads are spending a summer at a research station in the Arctic, where a Dr. Lunan is attempting a study of the migration of whales. When the scientist is put out of action by a fall on the ice, his daughter Jill, an experienced deep-sea diver in her own right, hastens north to continue her father’s interrupted work. A licensed instructor, Jill teaches Matthew and Kayak scuba techniques, and their experimentation in a new and thrilling environment leads them to excitement — and to danger. Unexacting reading for adventure-lovers aged approximately 12 to 16 years.