TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kalashnikoff,Nicholas
AU  - Louden,Claire
AU  - Louden,George
TI  - The defender
AV  - PZ 
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Shepherds -- Juvenile fiction
KW  - Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
KW  - Rams -- Juvenile fiction
KW  - Endangered species -- Juvenile fiction
KW  - Even (Asian people) -- Juvenile fiction
KW  - Yakut (Turkic people) -- Juvenile fiction
KW  - Siberia (Russia) -- Juvenile fiction
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Defender_(Kalashnikoff_novel); Release date is 2025-10-14; 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.); Originally published; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951
N2  - "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.)
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b4098792
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77051
ER  -