Daughter of Strangers
Amy is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Her parents take her unwillingly to an archaeological dig in the Barrenlands. She is an adopted child whose parentage is part Dene. They are digging at a place supposed to have been the temporary home of the ancient Chippawayan natives. She hates the digging and wishes that she were back in Ottawa for the summer. As she sits on a knoll above the site where her parents and little ...