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Just then, I hear more sniffling. 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. Fifteen-year-old Noah Thorpe is spending the school term in George River, in Quebec's far North. The Inuit 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 the North.
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The North, survival, acceptance, racism, Indigenous
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- Title The Middle of Everywhere
- Author Monique Polak
- Binding Paperback
- Edition New
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Orca Book Publishers, 2009
- Date 2009-10
- ISBN 9781554690909 / 1554690900
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.7 in (20.83 x 13.72 x 1.78 cm)
- Ages 12 to 15 years
- Grade levels 7 - 10
- Reading level 660
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Religious Orientation: Native American
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009929363
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Booklist, 11/15/2009, Page 35
- Kirkus Review - Children, 09/15/2009, Page 0
- School Library Journal, 11/01/2009, Page 118
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