Sometimes middle school feels like a dangerous mission in the cold, unforgiving tundra. Sometimes it literally will rafe survive his most frost biting adventure yet. Things heat up at hills village middle school when rafe gets an invitation from Dr. Daria Deerwin to join a research study on polar bears. How many times in life do you get a chance to come face with a real polar bear in the wild. Rafe is ready to find out, Alaska is pinkie freezing, hair freezing, snot freezing cold, but rafe might be headed for a meltdown. He's spending every waking moment with Penelope, who he definitely has a crush on, and a polar bear Dr. Deerwin is tracking goes missing with poachers on the tundra. It's up to rafe, Penelope and their new friends to save the day in rafe's coolest adventure yet.