Log Jam, or Spirit River
by Monica Hughes
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While vacationing with her new stepfamily whom she dislikes, fourteen-year-old Lenora meets an Indian youth on the run from a juvenile detention centre.Tags
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"Opposite to what tends to happen in novels presenting similar situations written more recently, Monica Hughes's Log Jam rejects the power of Aboriginality in favour of white middle-class values. The novel’s pair of intertwined narratives involve a white middle class girl with family problems and an Aboriginal boy in quest of his heritage–so that its rejection of that heritage is show more surprisingly straightforward." show less
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Author Information
39+ Works 2,852 Members
Monica Hughes was born in Liverpool, England on November 3, 1925. Before joining the Women's Royal Naval Service, she lived in Egypt as a child and went to school in Scotland. During World War II, she worked on breaking German codes. In 1952, she immigrated to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and began working at Ottawa's National Research Council. She show more started writing survival stories and science fiction novels for young adults. Her works include the Isis trilogy and Hunter in the Dark. She won numerous awards including the Phoenix Award for literary merit. She was named to the Order of Canada in 2002. She died from a stroke on March 7, 2003 at the age of 77. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Log Jam, or Spirit River
- Important places
- Alberta, Canada
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Tween, Children's Books, Teen, Kids, Young Adult
- DDC/MDS
- 823.914 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .H84 .L6415 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- 43
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- Languages
- Dutch, English, German, Swedish
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- Paper
- ISBNs
- 11
- ASINs
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