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Lost on the Tundra To her small Eskimo village, she is known as Miyax; to her friend in San Francisco, she is Julie. When the village is no longer safe for her, Miyax runs away. But she soon finds herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness, without food, without even a compass to guide her. Slowly she is accepted by a pack of Arctic wolves, Mid she grows to love them as though they were family. With their help,... (more)

Black Star, Bright Dawn

by Scott O'Dell

"A splendid, vividly written adventure." THE KIRKUS REVIEWS Bright Dawn was a teenaged Eskimo girl. Black Star was her part-husky, mostly wolf, pet. Together they were about to begin the famous Iditarod dogsled race through the bitter cold of Alaska. Bright Dawn knew they would win, but she didn't count on the cold, blinding whiteout, the belligerent bull moose, or ice that could crack and splinter at any time.... (more)

Julie's Wolf Pack (Julie of the Wolves)

by Jean Craighead George, Wendell Minor

From the author of the Newbery Medal–winning Julie of the Wolves and its sequel, Julie, comes a third exciting adventure about the wolf pack that saved the life of a young girl when she was lost on the tundra. Julie has returned to her family, but her wolf pack has a story all its own. Fearless but inexperienced Kapu is now the new leader of the pack. He must protect his wolves from the threats of famine and... (more)

Consumption

by Kevin Patterson

In Rankin Inlet, a small town bordering the Arctic Ocean, the lives of the Inuit are gradually changing. The caribou and seals are no longer plentiful, and Western commerce has come to the community through a proposed diamond mine. Victoria Robertson wakes to a violent storm, her three children stirring in the dark. Her father, Emo, a legendary hunter who has come in off the land to work in a mine, checks to see... (more)

Julie (Julie of the Wolves)

by Jean Craighead George, Wendell Minor

Julie's decision to return home to her people is not an easy one. But after many months in the wilderness, living in harmony with the wolves that saved her life, she knows the time has come. Julie is not prepared, however, for all the changes that she finds. Her father has forsaken many of the old Eskimo traditions. He has given up his sled dogs for a snowmobile, and now looks after the musk oxen that serve as... (more)

Dogsong

by Gary Paulsen

Inspired by an Eskimo shaman, Russel Suskitt takes a dog team and sled to escape the modern ways of his village and to find his own "song" of himself. "Enough gritty realism to satisfy the most adventure-hungry readers."--School Library Journal.

Julie of the Wolves Treasury Three Complete Novels

Julie of the Wolves Treasury Three Complete Novels

by Jean Craighead George

Terminal Freeze

by Lincoln Child

A breathtaking discovery at the top of the world . . . A terrifying collision between modern science and Native American legend . . . An electrifying new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child. Two hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle lies Alaska’s Federal Wildlife Zone, one of the most remote and inhospitable places on Earth. But for paleoecologist Evan Marshall and a small group... (more)

Frozen Sun: A Nathan Active Mystery (The Nathan Active Mysteries)

Nathan Active: Book 3

Frozen Sun: A Nathan Active Mystery (The Nathan Active Mysteries)

by Stan Jones

Blizzards, tundra, Eskimos, bush pilots, and bingo-loving grandmas enliven this literate ethnic mystery starring Alaska State Trooper Nathan Active, who has been assigned to the remote Arctic town of Chukchi. Though born an Inupiat Eskimo, Active was raised in Anchorage by white parents and has little knowledge of his native culture. During the long months he has spent in Chukchi, he has rallied against the icy... (more)

Compass Murphy

by Stephen Potts

Compass Murphy, noun. Otherwise known as Joshua. A boy with a compass in his head; needle pointing: North! Joshua's father has gone missing, last seen on a ship set for Greenland. Joshua therefore decides to stow away on another whaler in search of the one parent he has left. And so begins an adventure more terrifying and exhilarating than any he has ever known, and so too a journey of discovery, full of hope.

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by Robert Specht

by Ina Vandewijer

Ice Drift

by Theodore Taylor

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 they hear the terrible sound of the floe breaking free from land. The boys watch with horror as they start drifting south--away from their home, their family, and everything they've ever known. Throughout their six-month-long journey down the... (more)

White Dawn: An Eskimo Sage: An Eskimo Saga

White Dawn: An Eskimo Sage: An Eskimo Saga

by James A. Houston

In 1896, three survivors from a whaling misadventure are nursed back to health by Eskimo villagers who share their food, women, and way of life with the strangers. In return, the foreigners introduce to the villagers the spirit of competitiveness that rules the white man's world. Map and drawings by the Author.

The Greenlanders

by Jane Smiley

Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Jane Smiley’s The Greenlanders is an enthralling novel in the epic tradition of the old Norse sagas. Set in the fourteenth century in Europe’s most farflung outpost, a land of glittering fjords, blasting winds, sun-warmed meadows, and high, dark mountains, The Greenlanders is the story of one family–proud landowner Asgeir Gunnarsson; his daughter Margret, whose... (more)

The Usborne Encyclopedia of World Religions: Internet-Linked (World Cultures)

The Usborne Encyclopedia of World Religions: Internet-Linked (World Cultures)

by Susan Meredith, Clare Hickman, Kirsteen Rogers

This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland

This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland

by Gretel Ehrlich

For the last decade, Gretel Ehrlich has been obsessed by an island, a terrain, a culture, and the treacherous beauty of a world that is defined by ice. In This Cold Heaven she combines the story of her travels with history and cultural anthropology to reveal a Greenland that few of us could otherwise imagine. Ehrlich unlocks the secrets of this severe land and those who live there; a hardy people who still... (more)

Brother Wind

by Sue Harrison

In a time before time at the top of the world -; in a harsh and unforgiving age of ice -; courage will sustain three remarkable souls through trials as bitter as the chill winds of the eternal winter. Claimed by a brutal, despised enemy, Kiin must sacrifice her love for the sake of her tribe and the safety of her children. Left widowed and helpless amongthe Whale Hunters, Kukutux now faces the impossible challenge... (more)

Kabloona: Among the Inuit (Graywolf Rediscovery Series)

Kabloona: Among the Inuit (Graywolf Rediscovery Series)

by Gontran de Poncins

This extraordinary classic has been variously acclaimed as one of the great books of adventure, travel, anthropology, and spiritual awakening. In 1938-39, a French nobleman spent fifteen months living among the Inuit. He is at first appalled by their way of life: eating rotten raw fish, sleeping with each others wives, ignoring schedules, and helping themselves to his possessions. But as de Poncins odyssey... (more)

Mouse Woman and the Mischief Makers

by Christie Harris

Originally published between in 1978, these legends of the Haida people of British Columbia feature the wise and enterprising Mouse Woman, a narnauk (supernatural human - animal shape-shifter) who takes the form of both a mouse and a grandmother. Mouse Woman's role, as Christie Harris's carefully researched and respectfully told legends tell, was to keep order between other narnauks and humans. Both a teacher and... (more)

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by Jean Craighead George

by Scott O'Dell

by Jean Craighead George, Wendell Minor

by Kevin Patterson

by Jean Craighead George, Wendell Minor

by Gary Paulsen

by Jean Craighead George

by Lincoln Child

by Stan Jones

by Stephen Potts

by Robert Specht

by Ina Vandewijer

by Theodore Taylor

by James A. Houston

by Jane Smiley

by Susan Meredith, Clare Hickman, Kirsteen Rogers

by Gretel Ehrlich

by Sue Harrison

by Gontran de Poncins

by Christie Harris