TY - BOOK AU - Edwardson,Debby Dahl TI - Blessing's bead SN - 9780374308056 (hardcover) : AV - YA PZ 7 .E2657 Ble 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Farrar, Straus and Giroux KW - Inupiat KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Families KW - Alaska KW - Villages KW - Tundras KW - Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 KW - Alcoholism KW - Fiction KW - Family life KW - History KW - 1867-1959 KW - 1959- N1 - "Melanie Kroupa books."; Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning; MG+; 4.9; 6 N2 - In 1917, Aaluk leaves for Siberia while her sister Nutaaq remains in their Alaskan village and becomes one of the few survivors of an influenza epidemic, then in 1986, Nunaaq's great-granddaughter leaves her mother due to a different kind of sickness and returns to the village where they were born UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0908/2008026726-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0908/2008026726-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1002/2008026726-s.html ER -