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Author:

Edwardson, Debby Dahl.

Title:

Blessing's bead / Debby Dahl Edwardson.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

FarrarStraus and Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

178 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Inupiat--Fiction.
Family life--Alaska--Fiction.
Villages--Fiction.
Tundras--Fiction.
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919--Fiction.
Alcoholism--Fiction.
Alaska--History--1867-1959--Fiction.
Alaska--History--1959---Fiction.

Notes:

"Melanie Kroupa books."

Summary:

In 1917, Aaluk leaves for Siberia while her sister Nutaaq remains in their Alaskan village and becomes one of the few survivors of an influenza epidemic, then in 1986, Nunaaq's great-granddaughter leaves her mother due to a different kind of sickness and returns to the village where they were born.

ISBN:

0374308055
9780374308056

OCLC:

(OCoLC)242554228

LCCN:

2008026726

Locations:

NPSX771 -- North Polk High School (Alleman)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

AGPE046 -- Drake Public Library (Centerville)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

GKPC851 -- Huxley Public Library (Huxley)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

NUPD663 -- Osage Public Library (Osage)

AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)

HRPE845 -- Sioux Center Public Library (Sioux Center)

WSPF215 -- Spencer Public Library (Spencer)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)