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2) Water sky
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
A boy who goes to Barrow, Alaska, to live with friends of his father for a while learns the importance of whaling to the Eskimo culture.
Author
Series
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 1
Literature experience volume level 7
Animal behavior and communication theme book
Houghton Mifflin reading volume grade 7
Literature experience volume level 7
Animal behavior and communication theme book
Houghton Mifflin reading volume grade 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miyax rebels against a home situation she finds intolerable. She runs away toward San Francisco, toward her pen pal, who calls her Julie. But soon Miyax is lost in the Alaskan wilderness, without food, without even a compass. Slowly she is accepted by a pack of Arctic wolves, and she comes to love them as though they were brothers. With their help, and drawing on her father's training, she struggles day by day to survive. In the process, she...
4) Dogsong
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Something is bothering Russel Susskit. He hates waking up to the sound of his father's coughing, the smell of diesel oil, the noise of snow machines starting up. Only Oogruk, the shaman who owns the last team of dogs in the village, understands Russel's longing for the old ways and the songs that celebrated them. But Oogruk cannot give Russel the answers he seeks; the old man can only prepare him for what he must do alone. Driven by a strange, powerful...
9) Immi's gift
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Day after day in the frozen north, a young Inuit girl catches brightly-colored objects while ice fishing and uses them to decorate her igloo, until the ice begins to melt and she drops in a gift of her own before leaving for the season.
10) Nessa's fish
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nessa's ingenuity and bravery save from animal poachers the fish she and her grandmother caught to feed everyone in their Eskimo camp.
13) Dogsong
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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.
14) Caribou Girl
Author
Publisher
Roberts Rinehart Publishers
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
In northern Alaska an Eskimo girl is transformed into a caribou and travels with the herd in order to save her human family from starvation.
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When the plane carrying her to visit her mother crashes above the Arctic Circle, fourteen-year-old Allison Atwood is rescued by an Inupiat man who takes her back to his village, where she slowly comes to admire their very different way of life.
16) Nessa's story
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young Inuit girl, who wishes she had something to contribute when the adults tell their stories in the gathering place, encounters the story of a lifetime when she finds a giant egg one day and is able to see what it hatches.
18) Frozen Fire
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Determined to find his father who has been lost in a storm, a young boy and his Eskimo friend brave wind storms, starvation, wild animals, and wild men during their search in the Canadian Arctic.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2005, c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When the plane carrying her to visit her mother crashes above the Arctic Circle, fourteen-year-old Allison Atwood is rescued by an Inupiat man who takes her back to his village, where she slowly comes to admire their very different way of life.
20) Winter camp
Author
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. Sequel to "Toughboy and Sister."
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