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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.
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Nathan Active mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
In a small Inupiat village, what are the odds of two suicides occurring with a few days? State Trooper Nathan Active, assigned to his native Chukchi after growing up in Anchorage, is suspicious. But if he is right, what motive could there have been for two murders? And who can the murderer be?
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English
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Two hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle lies Alaska's Federal Wildlife Zone, one of the most remote and inhospitable places on Earth. But for paleoecologist Evan Marshall and a small group of fellow scientists, an expedition to the Zone represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study the effects of global warming. Everything about the expedition changes, however, with an astonishing find. On a routine exploration of a glacial ice cave,...
4) Ice whale
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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.
5) 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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old half-Inuit Nick and his white brother, Ryan, meet and share an adventure on the Firth River in the Canadian Arctic, facing white water, wild animals, and fierce weather as Ryan documents the effects of climate change on caribou for National Geographic magazine.
10) Ice drift
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Two Inuit brothers must fend for themselves while stranded on an ice floe that is adrift in the Greenland Strait.
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English
Description
Brower had left San Francisco with the intention of making a short dash north on a whaling ship bound for the mythic Arctic Circle. Adventure had a way of following Charlie Brower. His initial landing turned into a fifty-year long ice-bound lifestyle. Once he stepped off the whaler and back onto dry, albeit frozen land, Brower took a job as master of the whaling station. But, though commerce brought him north, it was the people that helped keep him...
12) Whale snow
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
At the first whaling feast of the season, a young Inupiat boy learns about the importance of the bowhead whale to his people and their culture. Includes facts about the Inupiat and the bowhead whale.
14) Benny's flag
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English
Description
Recounts the story of Jon Ben Benson, a young Aleut boy who enters a contest to design a state flag for Alaska.
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Language
English
Description
In A Place Beyond, Nick Jans leads us into his 'found' home: the Eskimo village of Ambler, Alaska, and the vast wilderness around it. In his powerful essays, the rhythms of daily arctic life blend with high adventure: camping among wolves, traveling with Iñupiat hunters, witnessing the Kobuk River at breakup. The poignancy of a village funeral comes to life, hordes of mosquitoes whine against a tent, a grizzly stands etched against the snow-just...
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