In 1946, while her emotionally distant father is in occupied Japan, a twelve-year-old girl spends a year with her mother’s relatives in a Tlingit Indian village in Alaska and begins to love and respect her heritage as she confronts the secret of her mother’s disappearance.
2000-2001 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Scholastic
Copyright September 1, 1997
ISBN# 0-590-36087-6 (PB)
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