Pettranella

Pettranella is excited at the prospect of homesteading with her parents but saddened to leave her aged grandmother. She promises to plant the seeds Grandmother gave her when they arrive, but the seeds are accidentally lost. Pettranella is heartbroken, but when spring arrives she discovers her new home has a surprise for her -- she has kept her promise to her grandmother after all. Ann Blades's lovely illustrations help bring to life Betty Waterton's moving story of family and change.

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Waterton, Betty

Blades, Ann

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Eva Padlyat lived in an Inuit village on Ungava Vat in northern Canada. In winter, when people wanted mussels to eat, they searched along the bottom of the seabed. Eva had often walked on the bottom, helping her mother, but today – for the very first time – she was to go down below the thick sea ice herself. Her mother went with her to the shore and out onto the ice. The time was just right. The outgoing tide had pulled the seawater away, leaving only the ice above and the rock-strewn seabed below. Eva lowered herself through a hole in the ice and, by candlelight, had soon gathered a pan full of mussels. There was still time to explore, she decided. But she stumbled and her candle went out. She was alone in the darkness, and the tide had turned. When, at the end of her adventure, she is safe with her mother again on top of the ice, she says, "that was my very last first time for walking alone on the bottom of the sea."

Very Last First Time

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