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1) Julie
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Series
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 2
Description
When Julie returns to her father's Eskimo village, she struggles to find a way to save her beloved wolves in a changing Arctic world and she falls in love with a young Siberian man.
2) Dogsong
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Series
Description
A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels assailed by the modernity of his life takes a 1400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own "song" of himself.
4) Ice whale
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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.
5) Water sky
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A boy who goes to Barrow, Alaska, to live with friends of his father for awhile learns the importance of whaling to the Eskimo culture.
Author
Series
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 1
Description
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
7) Whale snow
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Description
At the first whaling feast of the season, a young Inupiat boy learns about the importance of the bowhead whale to his people and their culture. Includes facts about the Inupiat and the bowhead whale.
9) Ice drift
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Description
In 1863, two young Inuits, fourteen-year-old Alika and his younger brother Sulu, must fend for themselves during the six months they are stranded on an ice floe drifting south from Ellesmere Island towards the Greenland Strait.
10) Lost and found
Author
Publisher
Peter Pauper Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
A wordless picture book in which a young Eskimo girl befriends a weak, hungry polar bear that has taken refuge in her igloo, and the bear later returns the favor.
11) Ghost vision
Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
c1983
Description
During a summer spent with relatives in northern Greenland, a twelve-year-old Eskimo boy is troubled by a feeling of being different, by visions he does not understand, and by a growing lack of respect for old traditions on the part of his contemporaries.
15) Runaway mittens
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1988
Description
Pica's mittens are always turning up in strange places, but when he finds them keeping the newborn puppies warm in their box, he decides to leave them where they are until spring.
19) Tiktala
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
When the spirit guide changes her into a seal, Tiktala learns the ways of seals and how harmful humans can be.
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