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Karen Hesse is the winner of a 2002 MacArthur Fellowship and the author of some fifteen books for children. A school visit to Ketchikan, Alaska, was the genesis for this book. Her many novels include Out of the Dust, the 1998 Newbery Medal winner; The Music of Dolphins, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults; and Stowaway, a New York Times best-seller. Karen and her husband live in Brattleboro, Vermont.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Aleuts Juvenile fiction, Aleuts Fiction, Racially mixed people Fiction, World War, 1939-1945 Fiction, Concentration camps Fiction