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1) 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.
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.
3) 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.
Author
Series
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?
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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,...
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.
8) 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.
10) 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.
12) 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.
13) Arctic son
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Description
A baby boy is given an Inupiat name to go with his English one and grows up learning the traditional ways of the Eskimo people living in the Arctic.
14) Ice drift
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two Inuit brothers must fend for themselves while stranded on an ice floe that is adrift in the Greenland Strait.
15) Never say die
Author
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.
16) 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.
17) Whale snow
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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.
18) Benny's flag
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recounts the story of Jon Ben Benson, a young Aleut boy who enters a contest to design a state flag for Alaska.
20) 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.
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