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Winter's Yearning Delve Deeper Fiction For Younger Readers

Fiction For Younger Readers

Jørn, Riel and Helen Cann. The Shipwreck. Cambridge, MA: Barefoot Books, 2011.
Shipwrecked off the coast of Greenland, Leiv Steinursson, a young Viking boy, is helped by two Inuit children, twelve-year-old Apuluk and his eleven-year-old sister Narua, and is accepted into their community, gladly leaving his violent lifestyle behind.

Paniaq, Herve. ˆIqaluit, Nunavut; Toronto, Ont.: Inhabit Media Inc., 2018.
"Takannaaluk" means "the one down there", a term used in the High Arctic to refer to the mother of sea mammals, the most important being in Inuit mythology. This picture book tells how she came to be both feared and respected. As a young woman, Takannaaluk is tricked into marrying a sea bird posing as a man and then betrayed by her family.

Rachel Qitsualik-TinsleyandSean Qitsualik-Tinsley.
The Raven and the Loon.Iqaluit, Nunavut; Toronto, Ont.: Inhabit Media Inc., 2019.
A re-telling of the pan-Arctic traditional story. In the time before animals were as they are today, Raven and Loon were both white. Their feathers had no color at all. Raven spent his days swooping through the sky trying to fight off his incessant boredom, while loon spent her days in her iglu working away on her sewing. One day, too bored to even fly, Raven visited Loon and suggested a sewing game that would give their feathers some much-needed color. The results led to Raven and Loon acquiring their now-familiar coats.

Sammurtok, Nadia.In My Anaana’s Amautik. Iqaluit, Nunavut: Toronto, Ontario: Inhabit Media Incorporated, 2019.
Told from the unique perspective of a baby nestled inside an “amautik,” the pouch in a mother's parka.

Stead, Rebecca.First Light. New York, NY: Wendy Lamb Books, 2007.
When twelve-year-old Peter and his family arrive in Greenland for his father's research, he stumbles upon a secret his mother has been hiding from him all his life, and begins an adventure he never imagined possible.

Wheeler, Patti and Keith Hemstreet.Greenland.Austin, TX: Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2016.
After arriving in Ilulissat, Greenland, to embark on a dogsled expedition in the Arctic, twins Gannon and Wyatt receive a mayday call from a family stranded in the far north and set off on a dangerous adventure to save them.

Yellowhorn, Eldon and Kathy Lowinger.What the Eagle Sees: Indigenous Stories of Rebellion and Renewal.Toronto, Ont.: Annick Press, 2019.
In this follow up to Turtle Island, academic Eldon Yellowhorn and award-winning author Kathy Lowinger team up again, this time to tell the stories of what Indigenous people did when invaders arrived on their homelands. What the Eagle Sees shares accounts of the people, places, and events that have mattered in Indigenous history from a vastly under-represented perspective—an Indigenous viewpoint.

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Susan Conlon

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