Smiler's Bones

by Peter Lerangis

Book Overview

A striking, fascinatingly told novel based on the harrowing true story of Minik, an Eskimo boy seized in the name of exploration and brought to New York at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1897,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439344859
• ISBN13: 9780439344852
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Scholastic Press
• Length: 147 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Marvelous

A marvelous book. Smiler's Bones is exciting and funny, tragic and inspiring. The author dives deeply into this fascinating story of a real boy, expanding it and painting in long-forgotten details of Minik's life, until the reader is left at last with both a vivid sense of life in turn-of-the-century New York and the glaciers of Greenland, as well as an expanded sense of what it means to be alive in any era. At the age of forty, I found it very moving, and I suspect the young reader just beginning to emerge from an obsession with Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew would find it utterly engrossing. Highly recommended.

exciting eskimos

I just finished Smilers Bones and it was great. It was hard to get into because it kept going from present to past without telling you. Also, it was hard to figure out the Eskimo language. But it was really good once you got into the book. It's a story about the explorer Peary and how he brought six Eskimos from Greenland to New York city and put the on display at the Museum of Natural History.They all die but the youngest boy, Minik. It's really the story of his survival. The other part of the book thats good is learning about Eskimo customs. A little bit of a surprise ending. It's also a true story. Read the authors notes at the end of the book. Definitly worth reading.