Book request: My gran bought this for me in about 1989 or so, I dont know if I ever finished it tbh. All I recall is that there was a young white boy, probably about 13 - I think he was called Rafe, and he was with what I feel strongly was an Inuit girl of about his age. She fed him suet. Im pretty sure the book was written in the 80s, but think that it was set in the late 1800s or early 1900s. The boys father was possibly a hunter or trapper. Presumably set in Canada or North America

Matching book description: No food, all lost,' said the girl. 'We die ever so soon.' She sat on the trunk of a fallen tree. 'No mans here,' she said. 'Land of bears, all ever bears.'Rafe the white boy had been forbidden to play with the 'heathen' Indian girl Tawena. But when the two are swept on an ice floe into the heart of the North American wilderness, far from the settlers' village, only the gir No food, all lost,' said the girl. 'We die ever so soon.' She sat on the trunk of a fallen tree. 'No mans here,' she said. 'Land of bears, all ever bears.'Rafe the white boy had been forbidden to play with the 'heathen' Indian girl Tawena. But when the two are swept on an ice floe into the heart of the North American wilderness, far from the settlers' village, only the girl's Indian skills can preserve them from the awesome danger they face. Can Rafe adopt the Indian expertise he needs to enable them to survive? And why does Tawena disappear when they meet two Indian women?A compelling novel of survival and of the growing respect between cultures, told by a master storyteller. ...more