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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 1851, at a remote village in the Scandinavian tundra, a Lutheran minister known as Mad Lasse tries in vain to convert the native Sámi reindeer herders to his faith. But when one of the most respected herders has a dramatic awakening and dedicates his life to the church, his impetuous son, Ivvár, is left to guard their diminishing herd alone. By chance, he meets Mad Lasse's daughter Willa, and their blossoming infatuation grows into something...
3) The herd boy
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While doing a good job of caring for his grandfather's sheep and goat on the grasslands of South Africa, young Malusi dreams of everything from owning his own dog to becoming president one day.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"On a winter day north of the Arctic Circle, nine-year-old Elsa -- daughter of Sámi reindeer herders -- sees a man brutally kill her beloved reindeer calf and threaten her into silence. When her father takes her to report the crime, local police tell them that there is nothing they can do about these "stolen" animals. Killings like these are classified as theft in the reports that continue to pile up, uninvestigated. But reindeer are not just the...
5) Legacies
Author
Series
Corean chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Alucius, a young man raised on a Nightsheep ranch, who has hidden his talent for manipulating the magical powers of his world, is captured by Matrial invaders and discovers that his magical talent could be the key to protecting his world.
6) Timbuktu
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives, which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith, abruptly disturbed when they are forced to follow the new laws of their foreign occupants.
Author
Publisher
Astra House, a division of Astra Publishing House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Li Juan and her mother own a small convenience store in the Altai Mountains in Northwestern China, where she writes about her life among grasslands and snowy peaks. To her neighbors' surprise, Li decides to join a family of Kazakh herders as they take their 30 boisterous camels, 500 sheep and over 100 cattle and horses to pasture for the winter. The so-called "winter pasture" occurs in a remote region that stretches from the Ulungur River to the...
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