| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
255 pages : map ; 25 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Indexed In: |
Junior Library Guild |
| Summary |
One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka Peninsula at the northeastern tip of Russia, two girls---sisters, ages eight and eleven---go missing. In the girls' tightly-woven community, everyone must grapple with the loss. Taking us one chapter per month across a year on Kamchatka, this powerful novel connects the lives of characters changed by the sisters' abduction. Theirs is an ethnically diverse population in which racial tensions simmer, and so-called natives are often the first to be accused. As the story radiates from the peninsula's capital city to its rural north, we are brought to places of astonishing beauty: densely wooded forests, open expanses of tundra, soaring volcanoes, and glassy seas. |
| Audience |
Ages 16 & up. |
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Grades 11 & up. |
| Awards |
A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG) |
| Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- Fiction.
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Missing persons -- Investigation -- Fiction.
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Women -- Fiction.
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Indigenous peoples -- Fiction.
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Missing persons -- Investigation -- Fiction.
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Women -- Fiction.
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Indigenous peoples -- Fiction.
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Missing persons -- Investigation -- Fiction.
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Women -- Fiction.
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Kamchatskaia oblast (Russia) -- Fiction.
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Kamchatskaia oblast (Russia) -- Fiction.
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Kamchatskaia oblast (Russia) -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780525520412 (hardcover) : 16.85 |
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