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166 pp.
| Holt |
October, 2009 |
TradeISBN 978-0-8050-8100-8$15.99
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4-6
Sisters Millie and Maura are the only survivors of a smallpox epidemic that rips through their Alaskan Native village in 1917. Facing peril, they set off downriver to find--they hope--other survivors. Smelcer's prose is clean yet rich, original yet unpretentious, and he provides more than enough detail (e.g., how to kill and clean a porcupine) to satisfy die-hard survival-story junkies.