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Top Ten Historical Novels for Youth, Booklist
Top Ten First Novels for Youth, Booklist
Best Fiction for Young Adults, ALA/YALSA
Notable Books for a Global Society, IRA
Junior Library Guild selection
Virginia Reader's Choice selection
Now in paperback: the acclaimed middle-grade novel following two generations of Inupiaq girls in Alaska, which the Washington Post praised as a rare and beautiful book.
Nutaaq and her older sister, Aaluk, are on a great journey, sailing from their Inupiaq village in Alaska to the annual trade fair further north. There, a handsome young Siberian Inuit wearing a string of cobalt blue beads watches Aaluk the way a wolf watches a caribou. Soon his actions―and other events more horrible than Nutaaq could ever imagine―threaten to shatter her world.
Seventy years later, Nutaaq's great-granddaughter, Blessing, is on her own journey, running from the wreckage of her life in Anchorage to live in a remote Arctic village with a grandmother she barely remembers. In her new home, unfriendly girls whisper in a language she can't understand, and Blessing feels like an outsider among her own people. Until she finds a cobalt blue bead―Nutaaq's bead―in her grandmother's sewing tin. The events this discovery triggers reveal the power of family and heritage to heal, despite seemingly insurmountable odds.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Edwardson, Debby Dahl
- ISBN: 9781643795768
- Condition: Used
- Number Of Pages: 240
- Publication Year: 2022
Language:
English