The Orphan and the Polar Bear Mid-Grade Fiction munching on spruce

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magical-realism novel from the author of The Flourishing of Floralie Laurel is about an Irish girl who is sent to a mysterious town in Virginia to live with her long-lost mother

And neither Lyra nor Will suspects how tightly their lives

a shining example of the highs and lows of early adolescence

Beguiling and mysterious

The Orphan and the Polar Bear Mid-Grade Fiction munching on spruceIn the world of Inuit traditional stories, animals and humans are not such different creatures, and animals often have much to teach humans about the world. In The Orphan and the Polar Bear, a little orphan who has been abandoned on the sea ice by a group of cruel hunters is discovered and adopted by a polar bear elder. While living in the bear's village, the orphan learns many lessons about survival and his own place in the world. Retold for