Debby Dahl Edwardson
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
"Luke knows his I©łupiaq name is full of sounds white people can't say. So he leaves it behind when he and his brothers are sent to boarding school hundreds of miles away from their Arctic village. At Sacred Heart School, students--Eskimo, Indian, White--line up on different sides of the cafeteria like there's some kind of war going on. Here, speaking I©łupiaq--or any native language--is forbidden. And Father Mullen, whose fury is like a force...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
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.
3) Whale snow
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
At the first whaling feast of the season, a young Inupiat boy learns about the importance of the bowhead whale to his people and their culture. Includes facts about Inupiats and the bowhead whale.