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21) Ice drift
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Two Inuit brothers must fend for themselves while stranded on an ice floe that is adrift in the Greenland Strait. The year is 1868, and fourteen-year-old Alika and his younger brother, Sulu, are hunting for seals on an ice floe attached to their island in the Arctic. Suddenly the ice starts to shake, and they hear a loud crack--the terrible sound of the floe breaking free from land. The boys watch with horror as the dark expanse of water between the...
22) Julie
Author
Series
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
Español
Description
A young Inuit girl, who wishes she had something to contribute when the adults tell their stories in the gathering place, encounters the story of a lifetime when she finds a giant egg one day and is able to see what it hatches.
25) Dogsong
Author
Publisher
Bradbury Press
Pub. Date
c1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
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.
28) The Inuit
Author
Series
Publisher
Bridgestone Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An overview of the indigenous peoples of northern Alaska, Canada, and Greenland including a description of their homes, food, clothing, art, family life, storytelling, religion, and government.
Series
Criterion collection volume 33
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A documentary about the communal life of the Eskimos and their struggle for existence. Special features includes excerpts from the 1958 TV documentary: Flaherty and film : Mrs. Frances Flaherty remembers Nanook of the North (8 min.); still gallery of Flaherty's photographs of life in the Arctic.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"It's the 1920s, and Bo was headed for an Alaska orphanage when she won the hearts of two tough gold miners who set out to raise her, enthusiastically helped by all the kind people of the nearby Eskimo village."
31) Winter camp
Author
Publisher
Maxwell Macmillan International
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Toughboy and his younger sister must survive the harsh Alaskan winter at a friend's winter trapping camp.
33) North
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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.
34) Never say die
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
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.
36) Arctic peoples
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomson Learning
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Describes arctic peoples and the ways they have adapted to their inhospitable climate. Includes projects such as making a kayak and making Aleutian baskets.
Author
Series
Kumak volume 2
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On a beautiful Arctic morning when Kumak and his family go ice fishing, Kumak hooks what seems like an enormous fish, and the entire village gets involved.
Author
Series
Publisher
Armadillo
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Introduces the culture, history, domestic life, traditions, and beliefs of Eskimos, and features instructions for making handicraft items related to those who live in the most northerly regions of the Earth.
''Discover the peoples who live in the most northerly reaches of the Earth - including the Inuit, Nenet, Saami and Chukchi races - their origins, history and everyday lives. Fact boxes, pictures and try-it-yourself projects make finding out fun...
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