Frost, Helen, 1949-

Diamond Willow / Helen Frost. - 1st ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. - viii, 111 p. ; 25 cm.

"Frances Foster books."

School Library Journal, June 2008 Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, June 2008 Booklist, June 2008 Horn Book, October 2008 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2008

In a remote area of Alaska, twelve-year-old Willow helps her father with their sled dogs when she is not at school, wishing she were more popular, all the while unaware that the animals surrounding her carry the spirits of dead ancestors and friends who care for her.

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Spirits--Fiction.
Sled dogs--Fiction.
Dogs--Fiction.
Family life--Alaska--Fiction.
Popularity--Fiction.
School stories.
Native Americans--North America--Fiction.
Native Americans--Alaska--Fiction.


Alaska--Fiction.

PZ7.F9205 / Dia 2008

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