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Gr 6–9—For 16-year-old Emmylou, her new town of Churchill, Manitoba, is a lonely place, where tourists come every fall to see the polar bears who roam the nearby tundra. When she is about to run away, Emmylou meets an Inuk boy and his team of sled dogs who are training for the 250-mile Arctic Quest sled race, and she finds a reason to stay. Barnabas and his elderly grandparents seem to be the family that she has been missing, and from them she learns about Inuit customs, food, language...Log In or Sign Up to Read More