Two old women [book club kit] : an Alaska legend of betrayal, courage and survival
(Book Club Kit)

Entire kit must be checked out. Please ask librarian for assistance in locating these materials.

NATRONA: Multiple volumes plus looseleaf pages in a canvas bookbag. Kit includes 6-12 books, discussion questions, author biographies, suggested further reading, and list of other books by the same author.

NIOBRARA: Kit contains 5 paperback books.

SHERIDAN: Multiple volumes plus binder in a canvas bookbag. Kit includes 10 books, discussion questions, author biographies and suggested further reading.

"This book was originally published in 1993 by Epicenter Press"--Title page verso.

Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine. Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful. In her old women, she has created two heroines of steely determination whose story of betrayal, friendship, community, and forgiveness "speaks straight to the heart with clarity, sweetness, and wisdom" (Ursula K. Le Guin).

Accelerated Reader,Grades 9-12,6.4,3,SD,Quiz 52269,English fiction.