The Icarus Project / laura Quimby / 293 pages

     This exciting book is a juvenile fiction for older grades or even middle school.  A person who is interested in archeology and exotic locations will love this book.  Thirteen year old Maya gets her chance to travel with her father to the arctic for a dig  to uncover mammoths. However what they discover is definitely not a mammoth.  She teams up with a boy she meets on the dig and together they try to discover the mysterious secret since things are not as they seem on the site.  What happens next and what they find are too cool to disclose here.  Simply put, you will have to read the book.  This is an exciting novel that combines a lot of interesting facts and storyline with total fantasy.  An awesome read.