Book
The snow child : a novel / Eowyn Ivey.
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. They both deeply long for a child that's now impossible for them to have. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blond-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.
Record details
- ISBN: 0316175676 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780316175678 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 389 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Reagan Arthur book." |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Frontier and pioneer life > Alaska > Fiction. Fairy tales > Adaptations. Alaska > History > 1867-1959 > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Magic realist fiction. |
Available copies
- 13 of 16 copies available at Sage Library System.
Holds
- 2 current holds with 16 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athena Public Library | FIC IVE (Text) | 37813000025562 | Adult Fiction | Available | - | ||
| Baker County Library | IVEY (Eowyn) (Text) | 37814002572924 | FICTION | on display | - | ||
| Cook Memorial Library - La Grande | F Ivey, E (Text) | 35178001288250 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 03/25/2025 | ||
| Harney County Library | FIC IVEY (Text) | 37720000454231 | Adult Fiction | Available | - | ||
| Helix Public Library | F IVE (Text) | 37835000092540 | Adult Fiction | Available | - | ||
| Hood River County Library | FIC IVEY (Text) | 33892005583647 | Adult Fiction | In transit | - | ||
| Klamath Community College | PS3609.V54S66 2012 (Text) | 3760300112 | Main Collection | Available | - | ||
| Milton-Freewater Public Library | FIC Ivey (Text) | 37862000267757 | Adult Fiction | Available | - | ||
| Nyssa Public Library | F IVE pb (Text) | 36660000443951 | Adult Fiction | Available | - | ||
| Ontario Community Library | IVEY, Eowyn (Text) | 33330004107274 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
