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Blessing's bead

Summary: 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.

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  • ISBN: 0374308055 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9780374308056 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 178 p. ; 22 cm.
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  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Melanie Kroupa books."
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG+ 4.9 6.
Awards Note:
A Junior Library Guild selection
Subject: Inupiat Juvenile fiction
Families Alaska Juvenile fiction
Villages Juvenile fiction
Tundras Juvenile fiction
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 Juvenile fiction
Alcoholism Juvenile fiction
Inupiat Fiction
Family life Alaska Fiction
Villages Fiction
Tundras Fiction
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 Fiction
Alcoholism Fiction
Alaska History 1867-1959 Juvenile fiction
Alaska History 1959- Juvenile fiction
Alaska History 1867-1959 Fiction
Alaska History 1959- Fiction

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