Blessing's bead / Debby Dahl Edwardson.
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TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: 178 p. ; 22 cmISBN: - 0374308055 (hardcover) :
- 9780374308056 (hardcover) :
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| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Edwardson, Debby Dahl | Available | 33111006180786 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Nutaaq and her older sister, Aaluk, are on a great journey, sailing from a small island off the coast of Alaska to the annual trade fair. There, a handsome young Siberian wearing a string of cobalt blue beads watches Aaluk "the way a wolf watches a caribou, never resting." Soon his actions--and other events more horrible than Nutaaq could ever imagine--threaten to shatter her I~nupiaq world. Seventy years later, Nutaaq's greatgranddaughter, Blessing, is on her own journey, running from thewreckage 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.
Two distinct teenage voices pull readers into the native world of northern Alaska in this beautifully crafted and compelling debut novel.
"Melanie Kroupa books."
In 1917, Aaluk leaves for Siberia while her sister Nutaaq remains in their Alaskan village and becomes one of the few survivors of an influenza epidemic, then in 1986, Nunaaq's great-granddaughter leaves her mother due to a different kind of sickness and returns to the village where they were born.