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The trap
    Smelcer, John E., 1963-
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company,
Pub date: c2006.
Pages: 170 p.
ISBN: 9780805079395
Item info: 25 copies available at CENTREVILLE REGIONAL, CHANTILLY REGIONAL, DOLLEY MADISON, CITY OF FAIRFAX REGIONAL, GREAT FALLS, GEORGE MASON REGIONAL, HERNDON FORTNIGHTLY, JOHN MARSHALL, KINGSTOWNE, LORTON, PATRICK HENRY, POHICK REGIONAL, RICHARD BYRD, RESTON REGIONAL, SHERWOOD REGIONAL, TYSONS-PIMMIT REGIONAL, WOODROW WILSON, BURKE CENTRE, and OAKTON.
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Gr 6-9 Johnny Least-Weasel worries that his grandfather hasn't returned home from checking his trapline. The elderly Indian packed ample supplies onto his snowmobile, but has been out far too long in the plummeting temperatures of the Alaskan winter. Cultural pride and reluctance to disrespect an elder get in the way of search plans until Johnny's grandmother can wait no longer, and she sends him out to find her husband. Only readers know that Albert Least-Weasel has caught his leg in a trap, several feet away from his supplies, and is unable to free himself. Chapters alternate between Albert's dilemma and Johnny's failed attempts to raise concern among his uncles, creating a suspenseful page-turner in which the old man's survival becomes a race against time. Albert's wilderness skills are sharp and described in detail, such as fending off wolves with a spear made from a cedar branch and creating a rabbit snare from a shoelace. Excerpts from a folktale about a warrior named Blackskin appear at the beginning of each chapter, illustrating how present-day life for the Least-Weasel family is still the same, in many ways, as it was for their ancestors. A great addition to survival/adventure collections or Native American fiction. Vicki Reutter, Cazenovia High School, NY Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From: Reed Elsevier Inc. Copyright Reed Business Information

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key: 07056646
LCCN: 2005035740
ISBN: 9780805079395
ISBN: 9780312377557
ISBN: 0805079394
Local Dewey call num: YFIC SME
Local call number: 127
Personal Author: Smelcer, John E., 1963-
Title: The trap / John Smelcer.
Publication info: New York : Henry Holt and Company, c2006.
Physical descrip: 170 p.
Summary: In alternating chapters, seventeen-year-old Johnny Least-Weasel, who is better known for brains than brawn, worries about his missing grandfather, and the grandfather, Albert Least-Weasel, struggles to survive, caught in his own steel trap in the Alaskan winter.
Subject term: Teenage boys--Alaska--Young adult fiction.
Subject term: Survival--Young adult fiction.
Subject term: Conduct of life--Young adult fiction.
Subject term: Trapping--Young adult fiction.
Subject term: Old age--Young adult fiction.
Subject term: Indians of North America--Alaska--Young adult fiction.
Geographic term: Alaska--Young adult fiction.
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