
In the frozen wilderness of northern Manitoba, fourteen-year-old Noah Krainik lives with his mother and cousin. With his quirky, cheerful best friend, Pelly Bay, he explores this exotic, lonely land--the domain of Cree Indians, trappers, missionaries, and fugitives from the modern...



Here is that special first novel that touches the heart, that gets discovered by one person and passed on from friend to friend. . . . an original, entertaining account of a boy's coming of age . . . an impossible novel to dislike.--The Washington Post.