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1) Ice whale
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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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.
3) 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.
4) Dogsong
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile 900 to 999
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile 900 to 999
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.
5) Snow Bear
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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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"--
8) North
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2006, ©2004
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.
9) Julie
Author
Series
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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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.
10) Never say die
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
©2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Grades 3-5
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Grades 3-5
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
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.
12) Whale brother
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Omu longs to find the magic he needs to create great whalebone carvings and inspired music on his harmonica, but he does not discover the inspiration until he stands watch beside a dying killer whale.
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