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This was a good multicultural book to share with my junior high remedial reading class.

A deaf boy, Kami, locates his family's yaks during a storm, and is able to lead family members to them and eventually bring them safely home. Despite Kami's disability, he shows compassion for the young yak when his leg is caught between rocks.

Young Kami must help his family by herding the yaks. One of the themes of the book is disability as Kami is deaf. The book is about achieving against obstacles. Published April 1st, 2007. Schneider Family Book. Fiction.

This is a beautiful tale about a Sherpa boy named Kami and his family in the Himalayas. Kami is a special boy because although he is deaf, he still manages to work and help his father to find the yaks that go missing during a storm. This is a very interesting story that introduces readers to a seldom-referenced culture while teaching them to overcome limitations. I appreciate the author's note at the end of the book about the history and lifestyle of the Sherpa people, and I would read this book to my social studies students during a lesson on Himalayan culture.

Kami helps his father find their four missing yaks as a huge storm – thunder, lightning, hail – approaches.It is not revealed that Kami is deaf until the end of the fourth page, which firmly establishes that his disability is a part of his persona, not the definer. He is, simply, a little boy that wants to help his father as well as find the four yaks he knows so well.

This is a story of a young, deaf Sherpa boy who has to convince his father, without the use of speech, to rescue a yak stranded in the Himalayas during a storm. It has great illustrations and involves the readers in the lives of the Sherpa.

they say that when you lose a sense that you gain it somewhere else and it is enhanced. I think this is a classic casse of that and what leads them to finding their missing yaks. The pictures were different and i really enjoyed that about the book. sometimes non traditional pictures. I think that everybody needs to learn about disabilities.

Kami, the hero of our story, is a deaf boy who manages to save his family's yaks from an approaching storm. I liked that the hero was deaf, and liked even more that Andrea Stenn Stryer didn't make a big deal out of this--it was just part of who Kami was. Ultimately, the story is about communication. Kami needs help in order to save the yaks, and he has to communicate to his father that the yaks are in danger, and he has to communicate the nature of the danger that they're in.

My niece and nephew both liked this book, and I think that's because the struggle to communicate to and with adults is something that all children experience at various points in their lives. They appreciated Kami's resourcefulness and success in figuring out how to communicate with his father, and they appreciated that Kami's father also appreciated Kami's resourcefulness and success. It feels good to be successful, and even better to be understood and valued.

Oh, and lovely illustrations, too!

I believe it is important for any aged student to read about a heroin with a disability. Kami was determined to accomplish his goal which was to save his family's yaks as well as his life. Imaginative illustration helps bring the story to life.

Great story and beautiful illustrations