The Middle of Everywhere - Couverture souple

Polak, Monique

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1554690900 ISBN 13 : 9781554690909

Editeur : Orca Book Publishers, 2009

Synopsis

Noah Thorpe is spending the school term in Kangiqsualujjuaq, in Quebec's Far North, where his dad is an English teacher in the Inuit community.

Noah's not too keen about living in the middle of nowhere, but getting away from Montréal has one big advantage: he gets a break from the bully at his old school. But Noah learns that problems have a way of following you--no matter how far you travel. To the Inuit kids, Noah is a qallunaaq--a southerner, someone ignorant of the customs of the North. Noah thinks the Inuit have a strange way of looking at the world, plus they eat raw meat and seal blubber. Most have never left the George River area--and it doesn't even have its own doctor, let alone a McDonald's.

But Noah's views change when he goes winter camping and realizes he will have to learn a few lessons from his Inuit buddies if he wants to make it home.

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A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Monique Polak is the author of over 30 books for kids and young adults, including What World is Left, a novel about the Holocaust which won the Quebec Writers' Federation Literature Prize, now called the Janet Savage Blachford Prize. Her work has also been nominated for prizes such as the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction and the Arthur Ellis Award. This book was inspired by Monique's trip to Nunavik in 2007.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Quote: Just then, I hear more sniffing. It's getting louder, coming closer. When I peek out through the crack, I'm confused. There's a mountain of snow out there. Only it wasn't there before. Where could all that snow have come from? Of course, it isn't snow. It's a bear. A polar bear. Or part of a polar bear, anyhow. I can't see the top or the bottom of him from here--just his giant furry white mountain of a middle. Even crouched over, he's huge. My jaw drops, and every part of me is shaking--my hands, my knees, even my belly. I want to speak, but I know I mustn't. Besides, right now, I don't think my mouth would work. I'm too afraid. My fear is pure and cold and overpowering. Main text: Fifteen-year-old Noah Thorpe is spending the school term in George River, in Quebec's Far North. The Inuit kids call Noah a Qallunaaq--the Inuktitut word for a non-Inuit person, someone ignorant of the customs of the North. Noah thinks the Inuit have a strange way of looking at the world, plus they eat raw meat and seal blubber. Most have never left George River--a town that doesn't even have its own doctor, let alone a McDonald's. But Noah's views change when he realizes he will have to learn a few lessons from his Inuit buddies if he wants to survive in the North.

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

The North, survival, acceptance, racism, Indigenous

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Orca Book Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1554690900
• ISBN 13: 9781554690909
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible