Ice Whale
From the most celebrated children's nature writer of our time comes a posthumous new novel in the tradition of her Newbery award-winning Julie of the WolvesIn 1848, a young boy witnesses a rare sight—the birth of a bowhead, or ice whale, he calls Siku. Years later, he unwittingly brings about the death of an entire pod of whales, and only Siku survives. For this act, the boy receives a curse of banishment. Through the generations, this curse is handed down: Siku returns year after year, in reality and dreams, to haunt the boy's descendants. Told in alternating voices, both human and whale, Jean Craighead George's last novel shows the intercon…
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Weitere Autoren: Hendrix, John (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-1-101-61269-9
- EAN: 9781101612699
- Produktnummer: 18090251
- Verlag: Penguin Young Readers Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 156 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'764 KB
- Sonstiges: Ab 9 - 12 J.
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Jean Craighead George (1919 - 2012) was the author of more than 100 beloved books for young people, including the Newbery Medal winning Julie of the Wolves and the Newbery Honor winning My Side of the Mountain. She was a lifetime naturalist.
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