A PLACE FOR DELTA

From farmhouses to research stations, Georgia to Alaska, 1800s to the present, A Place for Delta incorporates a variety of elements that captivate, entertain, and educate young readers.
When eleven-year-old Joseph Morse is invited to visit his aunt Kate in the northern most town in the US, Barrow, Alaska, he’s thrilled. But the real icing on the cake is the polar bear cub named Delta that he will be taking care of while there!

After arriving, Joseph adjusts to his new surroundings and falls into a pattern of care for Delta. He even makes a new friend, an Eskimo girl named Ada. But there’s something funny going on at the research station. Something that aunt Kate, Dr. Yu, Max, and Chipic don’t want to share, but that Ada and Joseph learn has something to do with a Delta’s missing mother.

The curious twosome is determined to help solve the mystery and save Delta. But what can two kids do? Well as it turns out, a lot! And if that isn’t enough for the adventurers, a whole new mystery awaits the group back in Georgia…
 

Melissa Walker has been a Professor of English at the University of New Orleans and Mercer University and a Fellow in Women’s Studies at Emory University. She’s a vocal advocate for civil rights and for wilderness. Her previous books include Reading the Environment (W.W.Norton, 1994) and Living on Wilderness Time: 200 Days Alone in America’s Wild Places (Univ. of Va. Press, 2002). She lives with her husband Jerome in Atlanta and spends much of the summer in Alaska.