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PETER IS THRILLED to leave New York City to accompany his parents on an expedition to Greenland to study global warming. There he has visions of things that should be too far away for him to see. Generations ago, the people of Thea’s community were hunted for possessing unusual abilities, so... read more
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- Peter: A 12 year old boy who lives in the New york but accompanies his father on a trip to Greenland for 6 weeks.
- Thea: A girl who's 14 years old and lives in an underground secret place call Gracehope. Thea is an ear adept.
- Rowen: Thea's Grandmother, who is the Council leader and most recent in a line of many great woman of Grace's Hope (Gracehope).
- Lana: Thea's aunt who raised her after her mother's death.
- Dolan: Cousin to Thea's mother and to her aunt, hence Thea's cousin-once-removed. He is teaching her to breed, raise, and care for the special Chikchu dogs of Grace's Hope (Gracehope).
- Mattias: Thea's friend and second cousin, son of her mother's cousin Sela.
- Dexna: Mattias's Grandmother and Thea's Great-Aunt, sister to Rowen. She does not talk.
- Jonas: A grad-student who goes on the trip to Greenland with Peter's family.
- Sasha: A sled dog to whom Peter becomes very attached.
- Lucian: The Gracehope librarian who never looks people in the eye.
- Gracehope: Grace's Hope, the place under the Greenland ice cap where Thea and her people live, has come to be called "Gracehope" -- a contracted form of its actual name. According to Rowen, this is due to pure laziness.
- Norma: Dolan's dog
- Dr. Solemn: Peter's father.
- Miles: Peter's best friend in New York.
- Cassie: A dog where Thea works
- Sarah: Grace's granddaughter who survived and made it to Gracehope
- William: At 17 the youngest eye adept of the settlers. He didn't make it to Gracehope.
- Chikchu: A type of dog breed
- Sela: Dolan's sister, cousin to Thea's mother Mai and her aunt Lana, and mother of Mattias.
- Rory: Peter's mother.
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Peter was like his mother-their skin that was nearly paper white, their all-over freckles, their wavy hair (hers dark, his blond like his father's), even the way they sneezed (always twice), and laughed (very quietly, after one loud sort of bark).
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Once you found fault with the ricewater pot, you couldn't enjoy it at all. It became a source of misery because it was no longer exactly as you wanted it to be. But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.
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It was a little like living with Clark Kent but never once getting to meet Superman.
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“I have you,” Lana said. Thea's eyes closed against her will as Lana cradled her, easily holding her aloft in arms strengthened by a lifetime of nurturing.
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A legend had grown: People said that Sarah's white-footed Chikchu was a symbol of the Settlers' journey to Gracehope, and that another would not be born until it was safe to cross the cold world again.
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I cried, looking at it, not because I knew that Mai would never again see her trailmark, although I did know that, but because I understood that, however hard I might try, her memory could never be preserved as purely.
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Peter's mother was a molecular biologist—a job even harder to explain than a glaciologist's. And her book was about mitochondrial DNA, something even harder to explain than molecular biology.
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“I can feel at home anywhere, but I am at home in Greenland.”
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no one is angry, not yet anyway. You have cured a kind of paralysis, Thea, suffered by everyone in Gracehope, and by the first bloodline in particular.
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“Our people were English,” she said quietly, “alwaysclose to the land and its ways. They knew how to grow things, and how to raise healthy animals. And some of them had … gifts. For this they were hunted by ignorant folk who accused them of witchcraft. They were nearly extinguished. Those who survived came here, where they might live in peace.”
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Most boys his age had never touched paper.
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