Arcadia Public Library

Describes how global warming has made the Arctic's oil, gas, natural resources, and minerals more accessible and how competition between nations and corporate interests for control of the resources is endangering the Arctic's fragile ecosystems. --Publisher's description.

"Now for the first time, the photographs and diaries from the 1901 Robert Peary relief expedition provide an intimate and unforgettable impression of two friends aboard ship in the Arctic at the turn of the century. The 1901 expedition documented in this book was organized to deliver supplies to polar explorer Robert Peary and to search for his wife and child. Clarence Wyckoff and Louis Bement, close friends from Ithaca, New York, and members of the...

"A book exploring the life and habitat of a mother polar bear and her cubs"--

A polar bear waits patiently for spring when the ice breaks up, but after months of hunting, paddling, and resting on ice floes, summer ends and the bear must swim very far to find land. Includes facts about polar bears and the effect of climate change on their environment.

"What creatures lurk beneath the sea ice? Putuguq and Kublu--two siblings who can't seem to get along--are about to find out! On their way to the shoreline, Putuguq and Kublu run into their grandfather, who has a stern warning for the pair: always beware when playing on the shore, because you never know if a qalupalik, a mythical creature that kidnaps children, is lying in wait under the ice. Kublu is pretty sure their grandfather is just trying to...

When owls threaten the puffins' way of life on the small island of Neversink along the Arctic Circle, Lockley J. Puffin, helped by a hummingbird and a walrus, set out to save it.

Greets the birds and animals of the tundra as they experience the change of seasons in their frozen northern land.

Valerie Chesterfield is a linguist trained in dead Nordic languages. She leads a sheltered life and languishes in the shadow of her twin brother Andy, an accomplished climate scientist stationed on a remote island off Greenland's barren coast. When he willfully ventured unprotected into 50 degree below zero weather, Val is inconsolable-- and suspects foul play. Then Wyatt, a fellow researcher in the Arctic, discovers a scientific impossibilityƯ:...

Miss Frizzle's class travel to the north pole to learn about arctic animals. When Ms. Frizzle announced that her class would be studying the North Pole, the students never thought it would lead them to the top of the world. They also never thought they'd get to see seals, caribou, musk oxen, and polar bears in person, but that was just the beginning.

A child living in the Arctic learns that a mother's love is unconditional.