Also published under the title Alone in the Ice World, fourteen year-old Allison from suburban California is in a bush-plane flying to visit her mom in a small village in Alaska--and the plane crashes with her as the sole survivor. Rescued by an indigenous hunter who luckily happens upon the crash, she lives and travels with Iñupiat Alaskans, struggles with her withdrawal from her past life as a mall-rat, and gains insights into the virtues and value of the indigenous culture.