02371cam a2200385 i 4500 1666270419 TxAuBib 20241022120000.0 240311s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781443471138 softcover 1443471135 softcover 9780063396142 hardcover 0063396149 hardcover (OCoLC)1427182061 TxAuBib rda Armstrong, Tammy, author. Pearly Everlasting [HC] : a novel / Tammy Armstrong. First U.S. edition. Toronto : Harper Avenue, 2024. 342 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "New Brunswick, 1934. When a cook in a logging camp finds an orphaned baby bear, he brings it home to his wife, who names the cub Bruno and raises him alongside her newborn daughter, Pearly Everlasting. During the Great Depression, amidst severe poverty and dangerous work conditions, Pearly's family and the woodsmen form a close-knit community that embraces the tame, young bear in their camp. But when a new camp supervisor--who increasingly endangers the lives of the loggers for profit--arrives, he is less accepting of Bruno. When the supervisor is found dead, Bruno is blamed, and soon after is kidnapped and sold to an animal trader. Pearly, now a teenager, has no choice but to find Bruno and sets off on a hazardous solo journey through the forest--her first trip to "the Outside"--to rescue him. To make her way home again, Pearly will have to tramp more than fifty miles through ice and snow, elude the malevolent spirit of Jack in the Dark and confront the modern-day cruelty of villagers fearful of her family's way of life. Over those harrowing miles, Pearly will discover what it really means to be family to a bear"-- Provided by publisher. 20241022. Bears Fiction. Human-animal relationships Fiction. Animal rescue Fiction. Wild animals as pets Fiction. Nineteen thirties Fiction. New Brunswick History 20th century Fiction. Historical fiction. fast Animal fiction. fast Novels. lcgft