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Author
Series
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 1
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) Dogsong
Author
Language
English
Description
A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels at odds with aspects of modern life takes a 1400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own "song" of himself.
4) Julie
Author
Series
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 2
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.
7) Ice whale
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
189 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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.
9) Nessa's fish
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1990.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
10) North
Author
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.
11) Ice drift
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
224 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Two Inuit brothers must fend for themselves while stranded on an ice floe that is adrift in the Greenland Strait.
12) Snow Bear
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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.
14) Arctic son
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[1997]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
When his older sister Julie brings home two small wolf pups, Amaroq takes care of the one called Nutik and grows to love it, even though Julie tells him it cannot stay.
Author
Series
Kumak volume 2
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm
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.
17) Runaway mittens
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[1988]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
21 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Pica's mittens are always turning up in strange places, but when he finds them keeping the newborn puppies warm in their box, he decides to leave them where they are until spring.
19) Lost and found
Author
Publisher
Peter Pauper Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A wordless picture book in which a young Eskimo girl befriends a weak, hungry polar bear that has taken refuge in her igloo, and the bear later returns the favor.
Author
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 volume : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Charlie, an Inupiat boy, is excited about the upcoming festival to celebrate a successful whale hunt, but afraid when he thinks this might be the year he takes part in the traditional blanket toss. Includes glossary and notes on Inupiat whaling traditions.
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