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Jill Owens: IMG The Powells.com Interview with Margaret Atwood



margaretatwoodIn her 2003 novel Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood describes a future after humanity had been almost entirely wiped out by a plague. Jimmy, aka Snowman, lives... Continue »
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    The Year of the Flood

    Margaret Atwood

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I am the ice worm

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MaryAnn Easley's I Am the Ice Worm is sort of a girls' version of Gary Paulsen's classic Hatchet. In both stories, a teenage character is stranded in the wilderness following a plane crash.  However, in I Am the Ice Worm, 14-year-old Allison is rescued from the Alaskan wild by an Iñupiat trapper, who takes her to his village to stay until she can be reunited with her mother.  Allison's upbringing in an upper-class family in southern California certainly didn't prepare her for this icy adventure, but she turns out to have courage and adaptability that she didn't expect.  Though Allison may initially seem too "girly" for boy readers, this novel has a great blend of adventure, wilderness, and family matters that will captivate boys and girls alike.
Recommended by Sheila A., Powells.com

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Publisher Comments:

Fourteen-year-old Allison Atwood is traveling to visit her mother in Alaska when her plane crashes near the Arctic Circle. The pilot is killed and Allison is alone in a wilderness of ice and snow. Thankfully she's rescued by an I-upiat trapper who takes her to his village. Here she is the "ice worm," the outsider, far removed from her life in Southern California. But as time passes, the villagers change Allison's life, and she changes theirs as well.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780440414445
Publisher:
Random House
Location:
New York, N.Y. :
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Children's fiction
Subject:
Action & Adventure
Subject:
Children's 9-12 - Fiction - General
Subject:
Fantastic fiction
Subject:
Social Situations - General
Subject:
Eskimos
Subject:
Inuit
Subject:
Survival
Subject:
Alaska Fiction.
Publication Date:
1998
Binding:
Trade Paper
Grade Level:
Elementary and junior high
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
127 p.
Dimensions:
7.60x5.24x.36 in. .20 lbs.
Age Level:
09-12

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