The Middle of Everywhere (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781554690909)

Noah Thorpe is spending the school term in Kangiqsualujjuaq, in Quebec's Far North, where his dad is an English teacher in the Inuit community.

Noah's not too keen about living in the middle of nowhere, but getting away from Montr饌l has one big advantage: he gets a break from the bully at his old school. But Noah learns that problems have a way of following you--no matter how far you travel. To the Inuit kids, Noah is a qallunaaq--a southerner, 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 the George River area--and it doesn't even have its own doctor, let alone a McDonald's.

But Noah's views change when he goes winter camping and realizes he will have to learn a few lessons from his Inuit buddies if he wants to make it home.

Author: Monique Polak
ISBN-10: 1554690900
ISBN-13: 9781554690909
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2009
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.70d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.1
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 134285 / Middle of Everywhere


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Review - Children 09/15/2009
School Library Journal 11/01/2009 pg. 118
Booklist 11/15/2009 pg. 35