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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
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.
Una joven esquimal se pierde en el r̀tico, gracias a su sentido comn͠ y a su valor logra sobrevivir.
25) The Inuit
Author
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes the history, culture, and environment of the Eskimos and the many changes brought about by their contact with the "white people's" society.
28) Ice whale
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
From the most celebrated children's nature writer of our time comes a posthumous new novel in the tradition of her Newbery award-winning "Julie of the Wolves" In 1848 in Barrow, Alaska, a young Eskimo boy witnesses a rare sight--the birth of a bowhead, or ice whale, that he calls Siku. But when he unwittingly guides Yankee whalers to a pod of bowhead whales, all the whales are killed. For this act, the boy receives a curse of banishment. Through the...
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This is a wonderful story which conveys the resourcefulness of children. More than that, Michael provides a view from within the Inuit culture. He illuminates for those of us who did not grow up on the Arctic Circle what it is to live in that harsh environment. At the same time, he shows us how alike we all are: enjoying the holidays and a good baseball game with friends.
31) The Inuit
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
An exploration of the Inuit, discussing their history, dress, survival skills, society, and more.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Shortly after his death in 1957, The New York Times obituary of Peter Freuchen noted that except for Richard E. Byrd, and despite his foreign beginnings, Freuchen was perhaps better known to more people in the United States than any other explorer of our time. During his lifetime Freuchen's remarkable adventures, related in his books, magazine articles, and films, made him a legend. In 1910, Freuchen and his friend and business partner, Knud Rasmussen,...
36) Never cry wolf
Pub. Date
[2004], c1983
Description
Story of a life-changing experience for a biologist studying the wolves in Canada's inhospitable North. A green young biologist named Tyler (Smith), is sent by the Canadian government to "prove" that the wolves are depleting the caribou herds, but what he finds is a natural world in perfect harmony where he becomes a tolerated outsider. Dumped unprepared in the wilds by a hard drinking bush pilot (Dennehy), Tyler learns survival skills from the aged...
Author
Description
From the golden age of polar exploration comes the astonishing untold story of Minik, a young Eskimo boy from northwestern Greenland, brought to New York in 1897 by the American explorer Robert Peary. Minik, along with his father and four others, was presented to the American Museum of Natural History as one of six Eskimo "specimens." Four members of the group, including Minik's father, quickly died of exposure to strains of influenza to which they...
39) North
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
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.