Kalashnikoff, Nicholas,  1888-1961 <br/><br/>
The defender 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Defender_(Kalashnikoff_novel)  Release date is 2025-10-14 
<br/><br/>Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)  Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) 
<br/><br/> "The Defender" by Nicholas Kalashnikoff is a children's novel published in 1951. Deep in the Siberian mountains, an ostracized shepherd named Turgen befriends a herd of wild rams, causing villagers to brand him a sorcerer. When hunting season arrives and hunters threaten the rams' lives, Turgen must choose between his safety and protecting the animals he has grown to love. A widowed mother and her children become his unlikely allies in this tale of compassion and courage. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>51012840 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Shepherds -- Juvenile fiction Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction Rams -- Juvenile fiction Endangered species -- Juvenile fiction Even (Asian people) -- Juvenile fiction Yakut (Turkic people) -- Juvenile fiction Siberia (Russia) -- Juvenile fiction 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PZ