No one should miss this beautiful legend. -- Tony Hillerman

Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine.

Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful. In her old women, she has created two heroines of steely determination whose story of betrayal, friendship, community, and forgiveness speaks straight to the heart with clarity, sweetness, and wisdom (Ursula K. Le Guin).

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 11/05/2013
ISBN: 9780062244987
Pages: 127
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 7.14h x 5.11w x 0.41d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 52269 / Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage, and Survival
Reading Level: 6.4 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 3