Class Novel:
The Middle of Everywhere
by Monique Polak
In Class Novel Assignment
Comparative Essay Writing
Where is George River?
VideoSetting Nets Under the Ice with a "Nulujiutik"This video comes from Saskatchewan, but the same technique is used as the Inuit in Chapter Fourteen of The Middle of Everywhere. In this video, the device is referred to as a "jigger".
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(From the back cover...)
"Fifteen-year-old Noah Thorpe is spending the school term in George River, in Quebec's Far North. The Inuit kids call Noah Qallunaaq - the Inuktitut word for a non-Inuit person, someone ignorant of the customs of the North. Noah thinks the Inuit have a strange way of looking at the world, plus they eat raw meat and seal blubber. Most have never left George River - a town that doesn't even have it's own doctor, let alone a McDonald's. "But Noah's views change when he realizes he will have to learn a few lessons from his Inuit buddies if he wants to survive in the North." |