TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tellefson, Mary,
AU  - Poulsen,Destine
TI  - Two Canes on the Tundra
SN  - 9781645383215
U1  - F TEL 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Waukesha, Wisc.
PB  - Orange Hat Publishing
KW  - Blind
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Yupik children
KW  - Children with disabilities
KW  - Blind children
KW  - Canes for the blind
KW  - Alaska
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FICTION / Disabilities
KW  - FICTION / Indigenous
KW  - Large type books
N1  - Middle grade
N2  - In an Alaskan Yupik village, a blind 12-year-old, Apu, relies on his older cousin to guide him around the village. When a special teacher flies in to teach him how to use a cane, Apu is teased by the other kids and gets angry. Hearing about Apu's struggles at school, Grandfather sets up a ceremony in which Apu's extended family tell stories of ancestors bravely navigating the Alaskan wilderness using tools for survival. Apu's resistance to using a cane fades as he recognizes Grandfather's support cane and his own mobility cane as tools for independence, similar to the role of ancestral tools for survival in a harsh wilderness

ER  -