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3) Arctic son
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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.
In the Arctic, the Eskimo people welcome all children. If a baby is not Eskimo, it makes no difference to these loving people, who give the baby an Eskimo name. When Luke is born, he is given the Eskimo name Kupaaq.
Eskimo life has adjusted to the long summer day and the long winter night, the severe...
5) Caribou Girl
Author
Publisher
Roberts Rinehart Publishers
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
In northern Alaska an Eskimo girl is transformed into a caribou and travels with the herd in order to save her human family from starvation.
Author
Publisher
North Point Press
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In the distant era of myth time, when people and animals still speak the same language, Crow and Weasel come face to face with Eskimos who only vaguely like themselves. Together they share stories, exchange gifts, and enlarge their idea of what is wondrous.
7) Ice drift
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Two Inuit brothers must fend for themselves while stranded on an ice floe that is adrift in the Greenland Strait.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A lifelong friendship develops between a polar bear and Bruun, an Inuit boy. After Bruun saves her from starvation and she, in turn, saves him from a blizzard, eventually they are separated and don't meet again until Bruun is a man.
10) The bone seeker
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In the third novel in this highly praised mystery series, 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...
Author
Series
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
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.
13) Go home, river
Author
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
In 1875, a young Inupiat boy travels the length of the Kobuk River with his family, from its source in the mountains of northern Alaska to Kotzebue Sound, where they join others for an annual trade fair.
14) On Mother's lap
Author
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A small Eskimo boy discovers that Mother's lap is a very special place with room for everyone.
16) North
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
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
Series
Publisher
Inhabit Media Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
"Jake's puppy Kamik is growing quickly, but the dog isn't becoming any easier to handle. All Jake wants is to raise his puppy into a strong, fast sled dog, but Kamik is far from ready to pull a sled with a dog team. With some advice and a little help from his grandmother, Jake learns basic principles of how to begin training a dog to pull. Kamik finally has his first sled, and he and Jake can finally begin exploring the tundra together. But Jake and...
18) Dogsong
Author
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.
19) Eagle drums
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In preparation for winter, a skilled young hunter embarks on a perilous journey up the mountain to gather obsidian, where he encounters the fearsome eagle god Savik and is presented with a life-altering choice.
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