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Author:

George, Jean Craighead, 1919-2012.

Title:

Ice whale / Jean Craighead George ; illustrated by John Hendrix.

Publisher:

Dial Books for Young Readersan imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

189 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Subject:

Yupik Eskimos--Juvenile fiction.
Eskimos--Fiction.
Bowhead whale--Fiction.
Whales--Fiction.
Human-animal relationships--Fiction.
Arctic regions--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Hendrix, John, 1976-

Summary:

In 1848, ten-year-old Toozak, a Yupik Eskimo, sees a whale being born and is told by a shaman that he and his descendants must protect that whale, which Toozak names Siku, as long as it lives.

ISBN:

0803737459 (hardcover)
9780803737457 (hardcover)

LCCN:

2013034090

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

JLPF081 -- Ericson Public Library (Boone)

VWPC964 -- Calmar Public Library (Calmar)

EBPE325 -- Estherville Public Library (Estherville)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

CYPF706 -- Musser Public Library (Muscatine)

AYPB546 -- Richland Public Library (Richland)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)

ZVPB675 -- Whiting Public Library (Whiting)