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The Middle of Everywhere - Polak, Monique
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Quote: Just then, I hear more sniffing. It's getting louder, coming closer. When I peek out through the crack, I'm confused. There's a mountain of snow out there. Only it wasn't there before. Where could all that snow have come from? Of course, it isn't snow. It's a bear. A polar bear. Or part of a polar bear, anyhow. I can't see the top or the bottom of him from here--just his giant furry white mountain of a middle. Even crouched over, he's huge. My jaw drops, and every part of me is shaking--my hands, my knees, even my belly. I want to speak, but I know I mustn't. Besides, right now, I don't…mehr

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Quote: Just then, I hear more sniffing. It's getting louder, coming closer. When I peek out through the crack, I'm confused. There's a mountain of snow out there. Only it wasn't there before. Where could all that snow have come from? Of course, it isn't snow. It's a bear. A polar bear. Or part of a polar bear, anyhow. I can't see the top or the bottom of him from here--just his giant furry white mountain of a middle. Even crouched over, he's huge. My jaw drops, and every part of me is shaking--my hands, my knees, even my belly. I want to speak, but I know I mustn't. Besides, right now, I don't think my mouth would work. I'm too afraid. My fear is pure and cold and overpowering. Main text: Fifteen-year-old Noah Thorpe is spending the school term in George River, in Quebec's Far North. The Inuit kids call Noah a 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 its 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.
Autorenporträt
Monique Polak is the author of over 30 books for kids and young adults, including What World is Left, a novel about the Holocaust which won the Quebec Writers' Federation Literature Prize, now called the Janet Savage Blachford Prize. Her work has also been nominated for prizes such as the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction and the Arthur Ellis Award. This book was inspired by Monique's trip to Nunavik in 2007.