Debby Dahl Edwardson

Three Iñupiaq children in Alas - ka are sent to a Catholic boarding school. Part of the school’s mission is to force them to abandon their language, spirituality, and cultural values. This is their story of resis - tance and struggle to return home.

In this book describing the struggles of the Iñupiaq people, two sisters are separated by the frozen Arctic Ocean when Aaluk marries a Siberian and travels to the Asian continent. Nutaaq remains in North America, where her family su ers from disease and devastation. Seventy years later, Nutaaq’s great granddaughter, the focus of the second story, is sent with her brother to live with her grandmother in the Iñupiaq community, but she feels like an outsider among her own people

didn't have time to read this/content did not interest me enough to make time, but I've heard good things about it.

An historical fiction novel about adolescents that live in bush Alaska who are sent to Catholic boarding school. This story, narrated by five teens highlights the unique circumstances of life away from home, young love, loss, and intense historical moments from Alaska and US History. Luke, Chickie, Donna, Amiq, and Sonny find family in one another despite their differences.