(4) 4-6 Illustrated by Mary Jane Gerber. In the early 1600s, Tuk, an Inuit boy, sees a ship approaching his Baffin Island home. He learns that the European sailors aboard seek help hunting the bowhead whale. The book includes many authentic details, though Tuk's grandfather's "dream" foretelling the whalers' arrival lends it a distracting New Agey tone. Black-and-white spot art and atmospheric full-page images accompany the text. Reading list, websites. Bib., glos.

Reviewer: Bridget McCaffrey

(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Mary Jane Gerber. When a flood washes away their Montana home on the edge of the Blackfeet Reservation, eleven-year-old Georgia and her grandparents are treated differently than the white people affected by the catastrophe. Georgia also struggles to tame a foal she rescues. Readers will be won over by Georgia's forthright personality and fresh, first-person voice.

Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2005

(4) 1-3 Illustrated by Mary Jane Gerber. Using a fictional story illustrated with stiff artwork, Manson describes the work of real-life physician John Hutchinson, who tended to patients in an early-1800s frontier town. Informational sidebars describing the tools and medicines used at that time are interesting and well written; in contrast, the fictional story seems artificial--a straight nonfiction approach would have been more effective. Bib., glos.

Reviewer: Anne St. John