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Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
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13-year-old Julie Miyax Kapugen, an Eskimo girl, is caught between the old ways and new.
Miyax rebels and runs away, but soon finds herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness.
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A group of scientists sponsored by a major media conglomerate are sent on an expedition to Alaska's Federal Wilderness Zone, one of the most remote places on Earth. When the group makes an astonishing find, an ancient animal encased in solid ice that appears to a giant cat, the parent company quickly plans the ultimate spectacle, the animal will be cut from the ice, thawed, and revealed on live television. Ignoring the dire warnings of a local Eskimo...
3) Dogsong
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
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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.
7) Snow bear
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 9
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Jamie, an orphan who must leave his upper-class boarding school to live with an uncle in the wilderness of Manitoba, Canada, has no idea of the incredible adventure that awaits him. During a hunting trip, he and Awasis, a Native American Indian boy, become separated from the group. Finding themselves lost and alone in the icy and dreaded wilderness called The Barrens, their struggle to survive against impending doom strips away their prejudice toward...
11) Julie
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Series
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
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.
12) Ice drift
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
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Two Inuit brothers must fend for themselves while stranded on an ice floe that is adrift in the Greenland Strait. The year is 1868, and fourteen-year-old Alika and his younger brother, Sulu, are hunting for seals on an ice floe attached to their island in the Arctic. Suddenly the ice starts to shake, and they hear a loud crack--the terrible sound of the floe breaking free from land. The boys watch with horror as the dark expanse of water between the...
14) The snow walker
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Pub. Date
1977, c1975
Description
A collection of stories, legends, fables, essays and factual accounts from the Arctic North, each offering a portrait of a land and its people and capturing the mystery of the Arctic and of Eskimo lore.
16) Fatty Legs
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When Margaret Pokiak was very young, she traveled with her father from her home in the High Arctic to Aklavik. The Inuit girl was mesmerized by what she saw there- strange dark-cloaked nuns and pale-skinned priests who had journeyed fro far-off lands. This is a powerful and moving autobiographical account, set in the 1940s, of one headstrong girl from an Inuvialuit community in the Arctic Circle. Margaret desperately wished to attend one of the...
18) When I was eight
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Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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This book chronicles the unbreakable spirit of an Inuit girl while attending an Arctic residential school.
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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"When the earth was new, words had the power to breathe life into the world. But when creating animals from breath, sometimes one does not get everything right on the first try! Based on a traditional Inuit story passed forward orally for generations in the South Baffin region of Nunavut, this book shares with young readers the origin of the caribou and the walrus--and tells of how very different these animals looked when they were first conceived."--...
20) Inuit
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"A history of the people and events that influenced the North American Indian tribe known as the Inuit, including the Inuit Circumpolar Council and conflicts such as early encounters with Europeans on Baffin Island"--