Text copyright © 2009 Monique Polak

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Polak, Monique

The middle of everywhere / written by Monique Polak.

ISBN 978-1-55469-090-9

I. Title.

PS8631.O43M54 2009    jC813’.6    C2009-903349-6

First published in the United States, 2009

Library of Congress Control Number: 2009929363

Summary: Noah spends a school term in George River, in Quebec’s Far North,
trying to understand the Inuit culture, which he finds both threatening and puzzling.

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Cover artwork by Getty Images
Author photo by Monique Dykstra

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