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School Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 2017 | Picture Books
Gr 1–3—This somber story introduces the effect of climate change on the Iñupiat, Native people inhabiting Sarichef, a small island near the Arctic Circle. Imarvaluk, a young girl born and raised on the island, describes the sea that is slowly "devouring" the land as having been "bewitched by an evil creature." The small wooden houses need to be moved inland from the coast, as it is increasingly engulfed by water. Hunting for their livelihood, hun...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on June 1, 2018
In this pensive climate-change story from the perspective of a young Iqupiat girl living on a small Alaskan island, the rising oce...Log In or Sign Up to Read More