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1) Dogsong
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels assailed by the modernity of his life takes a 1400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own "song" of himself.
3) Julie
Author
Series
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Julie returns to her father's Eskimo village, she struggles to find a way to save her beloved wolves in a changing Arctic world and she falls in love with a young Siberian man.
4) Ice whale
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
In 1848, ten-year-old Toozak, a Yupik Eskimo, sees a whale being born and is told by a shaman that he and his descendants must protect that whale, which Toozak names Siku, as long as it lives.
Author
Series
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen- year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
6) Water sky
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A boy who goes to Barrow, Alaska, to live with friends of his father for a while learns the importance of whaling to the Eskimo culture.
9) Snow Bear
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Bessie and a polar bear cub named Snow Bear play on the ice, while her older brother and the mother bear watch to make sure that everyone is safe.
10) North
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tired of his mother's overprotectiveness and intrigued by the life of African American explorer Matthew Henson, twelve-year-old Alvin travels north and spends a season with a trapper near the Arctic Circle.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Winning the hearts of two tough gold miners who raise her near an Eskimo village in 1920s Alaska, young orphan Bo thrives amid the daily activities of both cultures before seeing a first airplane, encountering a bear, and meeting a mysterious lost little boy.
12) On mother's lap
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Description
A small Eskimo boy discovers that Mother's lap is a very special place with room for everyone.
17) Nessa's fish
Author
Pub. Date
1990.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
450L
Language
English
Description
Nessa's ingenuity and bravery save from animal poachers the fish she and her grandmother caught to feed everyone in their Eskimo camp.
19) Miki
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Miki lives in a kingdom of ice she explores with her friends, Penguin and Polar Bear. She falls into a hole one day, and discovers an underwater world full of lights and novelties.
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