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3) 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.
4) 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.
Author
Series
Kumak volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the spring when the ice on the frozen river near Kumak's house cracks and breaks into a million pieces, it jams in a bend of the river and the water rises over its banks and into the village. This story tells what happens when the river comes to visit.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Edie Kiglatuk works as a summer school teacher in the Canadian arctic. When one of her female students is found dead in nearby Lake Turngaluk, Edie enlists the help of Sergeant Derek Palliser to pursue the case, promising the girl's Inuit family that they will uncover the truth. Meanwhile, lawyer Sonia Gutierrez investigates the toxicity of the lake and suspects that there might be a larger conspiracy involved. As the three clamber over rocky terrain...
7) 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
Language
English
Formats
Description
This completely revised and reedited edition, originally published as Qanuq Pinngurnirmata, shares eight classic Inuit creation stories from the Baffin region. These treasured tales have been revised to increase readability for young readers ages 6-8, while new material provides even more contextual information for these important creation myths. New illustrations accompany the new textual material.
This edition is as accessible and enjoyable as...
10) Immi's gift
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Day after day in the frozen north, a young Inuit girl catches brightly-colored objects while ice fishing and uses them to decorate her igloo, until the ice begins to melt and she drops in a gift of her own before leaving for the season.
11) 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.
12) Qaqavii: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Coming-of-age adventure story set in the North featuring a strong female lead, her Indigenous friend, and a cast of diverse dogs all in training for the daring Arctic Quest dog-sledding competition."--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Drawing on both lived experience and cultural memory, Norma Dunning brings together six powerful new short stories centred on modern-day Inuk characters in Tainna. Ranging from homeless to extravagantly wealthy, from spiritual to jaded, young to elderly, and even from alive to deceased, Dunning's characters are united by shared feelings of alienation, displacement and loneliness resulting from their experiences in southern Canada. In Tainna--meaning...
15) 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.
17) Eagle drums
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
"A magical realistic middle grade debut about the origin story of the Iñupiaq Messenger Feast, a Native Alaskan tradition. As his family prepares for winter, a young, skilled hunter must travel up the mountain to collect obsidian for knapping--the same mountain where his two older brothers died. When he reaches the mountaintop, he is immediately confronted by a terrifying eagle god named Savik. Savik gives the boy a choice: follow me or die like...
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.
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