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32 pp.
| Houghton/Lorraine |
January, 1998 |
TradeISBN 0-395-84544-0
(2)
K-3
Nine-year-old Aleut Alex Shugak works with his father to catch a variety of salmon at his family's fish camp on Moser Bay at Kodiak Island, Alaska. McMillan's crisply focused photographs are filled with close-ups of salmon and the animals--gulls, eagles, Kodiak bears, magpies, and fox--that also depend on this fish. Appended is a brief discussion of Alex's heritage and Russian influences on Kodiak Island. Bib., glos.