Mother Earth Father Sky My Sister the Moon Brother Wind | |
Author | Sue Harrison |
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Cover artist | Mel Grant |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Fiction, young adult |
Publisher | Avon Books |
Published | 1990 - 1994 |
Media type | Print, ebook, audiobook |
No. of books | 3 |
The Ivory Carver Trilogy is a trilogy by Sue Harrison that focuses on prehistoric Aleut tribes. [1] [2] [3] The first book, Mother Earth Father Sky, [4] [5] was published in 1990 and was followed up with My Sister the Moon (1992) and Brother Wind (1994). [6]
Mother Earth Father Sky is the first novel in the trilogy. In this novel, Chagak's tribe is attacked by a warlike tribe, including Man-Who-Kills, who rapes her and is subsequently killed, but becomes the father of her child, Samiq, who becomes an important character in the subsequent novels. It was chosen among the Best Books for Young Adults by the American Library Association in 1991 and was a Main Selection of the Literary Guild Book Club.[ citation needed ]
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