Status
Available
Call number
Call number
JP KUS
Collection
Local notes
Shelved in Aboriginal Collection - Youth
Description
Ten-year-old Agatha, an Inuit girl, is the reluctant heroine in this tapestry of Arctic tales set in the 1950s. Each tale has its origins in Kusugak's own childhood experiences.
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Publication
Toronto : Annick Press, [1998]
User reviews
LibraryThing member stornelli
Set in 1958, more than a 1/2 century ago, this volume contains 3 short stories about 10 yeara old Agatha who lives in the Artic with her family. As people are running when the airship is approaching, Agatha yells to it to go away and it does after it swoops down near the village. A lonely girl, she
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befriends the birds and learns that by feeding them, they will come back for more. She goes away to a residential school run by catholic nuns, learns to ski and skate and uses her ski to save the priest who while showing off slips through the ice. Show Less
ISBN
1550374532 / 9781550374537