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                          I shivered.

ALSO BY
HELEN FROST

Keesha's House

The Braid

Diamond Willow

Crossing Stones

Hidden

Room 214: A Year in Poems

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Helen Frost
is the author of several books for young people, including
Hidden,
Diamond Willow,
Crossing Stones,
The Braid,
and
Keesha's House,
selected an Honor Book for the Michael L. Printz Award.
Helen Frost
was born in 1949 in South Dakota, the fifth of ten children. She recalls the summer her family moved from South Dakota to Oregon, traveling in a big trailer and camping in places like the Badlands and Yellowstone. Her father told the family stories before they went to sleep, and Helen would dream about their travels, her family, and their old house. “That's how I became a writer,” she says. “I didn't know it at the time, but all those things were accumulating somewhere inside me.” As a child, she loved to travel, think, swim, sing, learn, canoe, write, argue, sew, play the piano, play softball, play with dolls, daydream, read, go fishing, and climb trees. Now, when she sits down to write, her own experiences become the details of her stories. Helen has lived in South Dakota, Oregon, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont, Scotland, Colorado, Alaska, California, and Indiana. She currently lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with her family. You can sign up for email updates
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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Epigraph

Map

Introduction

Characters

Salt in the Sea, Salt on the Earth

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Salt's Long, Slow Journey

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Salt Crystals Shine

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Deer Come to the Salt

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This Gaze, These Deep Brown Eyes

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The Deer's Heart

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The Deer's Life and our Life

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Veins Like Rivers

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Salt Inside the Words

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Salt Streaks

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Now the Sugar Maple

Notes

Glossary of Miami (Myaamia) Words

Acknowledgments

A Conversation with Helen Frost

Discussion Questions

Writing from Two Points of View

Teaser

Also by Helen Frost

About the Author

Copyright

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Frontispiece map art by Laszlo Kubinyi. Map research assistance from the Myaamia Center at Miami University, which consulted Helen Hornbeck Tanner and Miklos Pinther's
Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History
, pages 96–121.

Originally published in the United States by Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers

First Square Fish Edition: 2015

Square Fish logo designed by Filomena Tuosto

eISBN 9781250127075

First eBook edition: May 2016

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