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Title: Minuk: Ashes in the Pathway (Girls of Many Lands) by Kirkpatrick Hill, Patrick Faricy ISBN: 1-58485-520-7 Publisher: Pleasant Company Publications Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Mink: Ashes in the Pathway
Comment: Minuk: Ashes in the Pathway has not only been an extremly good book to read, but it has also been a very helpful tool for me, both in school and in boredom.
First, I'll tell you how I came upon this book. While I was on summer vacation, I spent it at my mom's work place. After a week and a bit, I had already exhausted the supply of books which I had brung with me. After work the next day, my mom and I went out to the bookstore and bought this book. The next day I started it and, without stopping, finished it in no time flat. The book was amazing. It made me think of missionaries and Alaska in a different way, when before, I really hadn't though about them at all. The details are beautiful. You can almost believe that you're there in the village along with Minuk. Also, the fasination that Minuk experiances when she hears and sees all these new things is very believable, not fake like you read in other books. I liked how Minuk was so surprised at some of the things the Hoff's did, because it was understandable. She seemed so real to me as I read the book that I read it another time, and then skimmed it another time. Also, the book was correct gramatically and literrarly. It was easy to understand, but it might be better to get some background information first, because some cultural terms may be confusing. In the end, everything ties together neatly though, so even that you may not need to do.
This book has also been a helpful tool for me at school. We were studying Alaska first thing (which I didn't know at the time that we had bought the book). I found that I knew quite a few things about the Yup'ik culture. Then, in the middle of the quarter, we were asked to complete a project. This project consisted of us picking an Alaskan Native American culture. After we did that, we had to write a one page report on their lifestyle (food they ate, clothing they wore, houses, etc.). As soon as I heard of the project, I was determined to do the Yup'ik culture, because I knew that this book would help me. I finished the project in no time at all and got a perfect score on it with nothing but this book and one internet site for research.
All in all, I really love this book and reccomend it for all readers. It has entertained me and helped me and I believe it will do the same to you.
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting and educating
Comment: As the wife of a Yup'ik Eskimo man and mom to two half-Yup'ik daughters, I seized this book the first time I saw it. I read it and enjoyed it, finding it interesting to read about customs and traditions I'd heard about for a long time put into the context of everyday life. It made some things much more real. I was also very interested to read about the changes missionaries brought.
After reading this book, I read it to my older daughter. At the age of 8, I wasn't sure she was ready to read it herself, particularly the end. As I read aloud, I experienced the book all over again. To read to my daughter, and to realize that as a young Yup'ik woman she would be nearing womanhood in her traditional culture was somewhat astounding. Some of the book went over her head, but by reading it together, I felt she and I both got a better picture of traditional Yup'ik culture, particularly its treatment of girls and women.
Minuk is not a highly developed character, but the culture is more the main focus of the book, and her character does a good job relaying that information.
The Yup'ik culture, while changed, is alive in Alaska today. Reading this book and thinking about differences between now and then will give a reader at least a basic idea of the internal conflict many Yup'ik people go through today, trying to reconcile the old ways with the new. And it might make you wonder just why Western ways are supposed to be "better."
Rating: 1
Summary: Disappointing...
Comment: I was excited to read this book about a Yup'ik Eskimo village in the 1890s. Minuk, the narrator, is 12 and tells the story. It seems interesting...a missionary family arrives to "civilize" her people. However, characters were introduced so fast and then pushed aside, that it left me wondering..."who was that?" I did like the little bit of historical information at the end, but that was probably the best part of the book. Otherwise it moved to fast and the leaves the reader feeling like we never really get to know Minuk.
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Title: Neela: Victory Song (Girls of Many Lands) by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Troy Howell ISBN: 1584855215 Publisher: Pleasant Company Publications Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Spring Pearl: The Last Flower (Girls of Many Lands) by Laurence Yep, Kazuhiko Sano ISBN: 1584855193 Publisher: Pleasant Company Publications Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Isabel: Taking Wing (Girls of Many Lands) by Annie Dalton, Mark Elliott ISBN: 1584855177 Publisher: Pleasant Company Publications Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Cecile: Gates of Gold (Girls of Many Lands) by Mary Casanova, Jean-Paul Tibbles ISBN: 1584855185 Publisher: Pleasant Company Publications Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Saba: Under the Hyena's Foot (Girls of Many Lands) by Jane Kurtz, Jean-Paul Tibbles ISBN: 1584857471 Publisher: Pleasant Company Publications Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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