Tuk and the Whale

Raquel Rivera (Author) Mary Jane Gerber (Illustrator)
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117731
Product Type: Paperback Books
Age Groups: Ages 7 to 9

Told by a young Inuit boy, this story imagines what might have happened if the people of a Baffin Island winter camp had encountered European whalers.

This story is set on the eastern coast of Baffin Island in the early decades of the 1600s. Told from the point of view of a young Inuit boy, Tuk, it imagines what might have happened if the people of Tuk's Baffin Island winter camp had encountered European whalers, blown far north from their usual whaling route. Both the Inuit hunters and the whalers prize the bowhead whale, but for very different reasons. Together, they set out on a hunt, though they are all on new and uncertain ground.

Scrupulously researched, this beautifully told story will inspire extremely topical discussion about communication between two groups of people with entirely different world views; and about a productive partnership that also foreshadows serious problems to come.

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SKU 117731
ISBN 9780888998910
Language English
Lexile ® Measure 570L
Page Count 96
Product Type Paperback Books
Book Type Chapter Books
Additional Contributor Mary Jane Gerber
Primary Contributor Raquel Rivera
Age Groups Ages 7 to 9