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Top Ten Historical Novels for Youth, Booklist Top Ten First Novels for Youth, Booklist Best Fiction for Young Adults, American Library Association (ALA) Notable Books for a Global Society, International Reading Association (IRA) Junior Library Guild selectionNow in paperback: the acclaimed middle-grade novel tracing four generations of an Iñupiaq family in Alaska, which the Washington Post praised as "a rare and beautiful book."ALASKA, 1917 Nutaaq adores her older sister, Aaluk, and the happy world of their close-knit Iñupiaq village. When Aaluk goes across the sea to marry a Siberian Inuit man, she gives Nutaaq a gift from her husband's people: two precious cobalt blue beads. Through the months that follow, as a great shadow falls over the village, the beads remind Nutaaq of the people she loves, and hold out hope that she might connect with her sister again. ALASKA, 1989 Blessing's life in the city is unpredictable, with a mother who's sometimes wonderful and sometimes gone. When Mom finally can't take care of her anymore, Blessing is sent to live in a remote Arctic village with a grandmother she barely remembers. In her new home, unfriendly girls whisper in a language she doesn'

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Author

Debby Dahl Edwardson

Publisher

Lee & Low Books, Incorporated

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781643796062

Category

work of fiction

Rating

3.81 / 5 (171 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14