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Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alaska in the 1920s is a difficult place for Jack and Mabel. Drifting apart, the childless couple discover Faina, a young girl living alone in the wilderness. Soon, Jack and Mabel come to love Faina as their own. But when they learn a surprising truth about the girl, their lives change in profound ways.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
417 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1885, decorated war hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads an exploratory expedition up the Wolverine River and into the vast, untamed Alaska Territory. Leaving behind Sophie, his newly pregnant wife, Forrester records his extraordinary experiences in hopes that his journal will reach her if he doesn't return. As they map the territory and gather information on native tribes, whose understanding of the natural world is unlike anything...
3) Togo
Author
Series
Dog diaries volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014].
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
163 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sled dog Togo--the true hero of the 1925 Serum Run--narrates the story of his life working with musher Leonard Seppala"--
Author
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
In 1934, eleven-year-old Terpsichore's father signs up for President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project, uprooting the family from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska, where Terpsichore refuses to let rough conditions and first impressions get in the way of her grand adventure.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
278 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"--
6) Island war
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
520L
Physical Desc
203 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1942 13-year-olds Izzy and Matt become trapped on an Japanese-occupied Aleutian island when the rest of the American population is evacuated and must survive on their own for the duration of World War II" --
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Lexile measure
940L
Physical Desc
198 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Minuk's traditional Eskimo way of life is changed forever in 1892 with the arrival of Christian missionaries. Includes factual information about Yupik Eskimo culture and social life in the past and the present, and a short glossary of Yupik words.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
281 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1920s Alaska, when five-year-old Bo and her two adoptive fathers move to Iditarod Creek to work at a new gold mine, Bo feels homesick until she realizes there is friendship to be found everywhere--and Iditarod Creek may hold some surprises for her already unconventional family." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
178 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1917, Aaluk leaves for Siberia while her sister Nutaaq remains in their Alaskan village and becomes one of the few survivors of an influenza epidemic, then in 1986, Nunaaq's great-granddaughter leaves her mother due to a different kind of sickness and returns to the village where they were born.