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1) Dogsong
Author
Publisher
Bradbury Press
Pub. Date
1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
211 p. ; 22 cm.
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
Publisher
Soundprints
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 cassette, 1 book (32 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.)
Language
English
Description
While visiting the exhibit on native cultures at the National Museum of Natural History, Tomas travels back in time and becomes an Inuit boy living in the Arctic regions in the 1800s.
4) Dogsong
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In the Old Days There Were Songs 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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1973
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
170 p.
Language
English
Description
Faced with the prospect of a disagreeable arranged marriage or a journey across the barren Alaskan tundra, 13-year-old Miyax chooses the tundra. She finds herself caught between the traditional Eskimo ways and the modern ways of the whites. Miyax, or Julie as her pen pal Amy calls her, sets out alone to visit Amy in San Francisco, a world far away from Eskimo culture and the frozen land of Alaska.
During her long and arduous journey, Miyax comes...
6) 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
Physical Desc
189 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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.