Spirit Quest

By Diane Silvey

In the rich tradition of Coast Salish legend, mother and son Diane and Joe Silvey write and illustrate a classic quest story. Teenage twins Kaya and Tala journey into the perilous British Columbia wilderness confronting fish and fowl, beast and phantom, and the wolf spirit destined to be Tala’s protective guardian. Imaginative black-and-white illustrations complement this unique story of adventure.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dundurn
• Release date: Sep 8, 2009
• ISBN: 9781770706781

Diane Silvey

Diane Silvey is Coast Salish and a graduate of the Native Indian Teacher Education Program at the University of British Columbia

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SPIRIT QUEST

SPIRIT QUEST

Diane Silvey

Illustrated by Joe Silvey

DUNDURN PRESS

TORONTO

Copyright © Diane Silvey, 1997

Illustrations copyright © Joe Silvey, 1997

Second printing 2009

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise (except for brief passages for purposes of review) without the prior permission of Dundurn Press. Permission to photocopy should be requested from Access Copyright.

Edited by Antonia Banyard and Joy Gugeler

Cover illustration by Joe Silvey

Cover design by Barbara Munzar

Type design by Carolyn Stewart

Photo credit (Diane Silvey): Dorothy Haggeart

Photo credit (Joe Silvey): Alana Herman

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Silvey, Diane

Spirit quest / by Diane Silvey

ISBN 978-1-55002-831-7

1. Coast Salish Indians—Juvenile fiction. I.Title.

PS8587.I278S65 2008    jC813’.54    C2008-904202-6

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We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program and The Association for the Export of Canadian Books, and the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishers Tax Credit program, and the Ontario Media Development Corporation.

Care has been taken to trace the ownership of copyright material used in this book. The author and the publisher welcome any information enabling them to rectify any references or credits in subsequent editions.

J. Kirk Howard, President

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

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For Angela, Joe, Carol, Jason and Max

Grandfather laid his hands gently on Kaya’s and Tala’s shoulders. He counselled the twins softly,"The path ahead is treacherous, you