First Nation Literature Units Senior 1 - Victoria School District 61

About the Novel
Noah finds out there are worse things than raw ptarmigan liver. But not much worse.
Noah Thorpe is spending the school term in George River, 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 Montreal 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 George River—a town that 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.
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