Frank Carlson Library

Biography for young people.

A businessman who is not very nice has bought the North Pole and Christmas, threatening to ruin that special day, and only Chrissie, Santa's daughter, seems to believe Christmas can be saved.

When a reindeer is deliberately injured at the annual Reindeer Games, the North Police elves must find out which reindeer is cheating in order to win a place pulling Santa's sleigh.

It is the day after Christmas and Christmastown highway is jammed with elves coming back to the North Pole after their day off, so when one of the sleighs falls through a crack in the highway ice, one of the South Police, who are penguins, comes to the rescue.

"Wally and the Puppy Pirates compete in a dogsled race at the North Pole"--

When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.

Features maps and information about the geography, plants, animals, and ecosystems of both poles and all five oceans.

An adorable yet mischievous twelve-year-old boy lives at an orphanage. Two days before Christmas, alone in the woods, Max meets a large talking dog named Hercules. The dog explains to Max that he makes the naughty and nice list for Santa and he was sent to offer Max a chance at the nice list. Max takes a magical ride to the North Pole and appears before Santa in his courtroom run by Elves. Hercules successfully acts as Max's attorney.

"It might seem lonely at the top of the world, but the North Pole is teeming with life! Polar bears, walruses, and Arctic seals make their home on sea ice that can be nine feet thick, while the Inuit and other Indigenous peoples continue their traditions and means for survival in this harsh climate. Along with the early twentieth-century story of Robert Peary's egomaniacal quest to reach the exact spot of the North Pole, this is an exciting new addition...

The sun never sets, the air is twenty degrees below zero, and the ice is moving at four hundred yards an hour. Welcome to the North Pole. In 2003, environmental reporter Andrew Revkin joined a scientific expedition to one of the world's last uncharted frontiers, where he was the first New York Times reporter ever to file stories and photographs from the top of the world. In his quest to understand the pole, Andrew leads readers through the mysterious...