Turner has written two additional books for young adults with themes of self-reliance and courage. A Hunter Comes Home is the story of Jonas, a fifteen-year-old Eskimo boy caught in a controversy between his mother, who wants him to go away to school to prepare for the changing ways of their people, and his grandfather, who wants him to stay in the village and learn the traditional ways. Jonas goes to school in southern Alaska for a year, but he finds it painfully lonesome.

When he returns to the village, however, he feels stifled and frustrated by the demands of his grandfather. Jonas seems to fail at both the old and new ways until a tragedy occurs on an expedition with his grandfather. He eventually arrives at a sense of self and a path that is right for him.

In Third Girl from the Left, Sarah's...