When the caribou herds fail to return in the spring, famine becomes so acute that a young Eskimo boy sets out alone in search of food.
- ISBN: 9780152991043
- Author: Houston, James A.,
- Published: 1971 , Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Themes: Hunting and hunters, Indigenous, Inuit
- Descriptors: Canada, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Realistic Fiction