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Tuk and the Whale

Raquel Rivera | Mary Jane Gerber
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Canadian literature
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citizenship
colonization
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cooperation
Craft and Structure
culture and heritage
determining importance
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First Nations
grade 2
grade 3
grade 4
history
hunting
illustrations
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Indigenous characters
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
journey
Northern Canada
novel studies
Nunavut
responsibility
sea creatures
social justice
summarizing
survival
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780888998910
  • Weight: 99g
  • Dimensions: 127 x 190mm
  • Publication Date: 15 May 2008
  • Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada
  • Publication City/Country: CA
  • Product Form: Paperback
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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.
About Raquel Rivera | Mary Jane Gerber
RAQUEL RIVERA is a writer and performer. Among many accolades for her publications, Raquel has won the Quebec Writers’ Federation Prize for Children’s and YA Literature for her novels Yipee’s Gold Mountain and Orphan Ahwak, and her novel Tuk and the Whale was shortlisted for the prize. Her book Arctic Adventures: Tales from the Lives of Inuit Artists, illustrated by Jirina Marton, was named a USBBY Outstanding International Book. Raquel lives in Montreal, Quebec. Mary Jane Gerber has illustrated several books for children. She lives in Orangeville, Ontario.

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