Water Sky Author:Jean Craighead George Lincoln Noah Storywright is spending a few months in Alaska with the family of Vincent Olagak, an Eskimo whaling captain. Lincoln hopes to explore his own Ologak ancestry and to find his Yankee uncle who came to Alaska two years before to help save the whales from extinction - and then disappeared. — But the Eskimos won't tell him what happened ... more »to Uncle Jack. They are interested in Lincoln for another reason: a whale is coming to Lincoln, a whale that will end two years of waiting and suffering for the Eskimo people. Lincoln understands that the future of the village rests on killing the whale. But if the whale does come to him, can he kill it? Will he think like an Eskimo or a white man?« less