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| Alaska's Heroes: A Call to Courage |
Subsection
Survival
Level
Ages 14 & up
Author
Nancy Warren Ferrell
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 2002
Every year the Governor of Alaska recognizes people who have risked their own lives to save others in danger. This book tells the exciting stories of some of these amazing heros.
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| Winter Walk: A Century-Old Survival Story from the Arctic |
Subsection
Survival
Level
Ages 14 & up
Author
Loretta Outwater Cox
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 2003
A young family is at their winter camp running a trapline. But when the father dies, they must make a decision: Do they stay and die like papa or do they risk the long, cold walk back to their village.
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| Alaska Life |
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| Thunder on the Tundra |
Subsection
Playing in Alaska
Level
Ages 14 & up
Author
Lew Freedman
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 2008
Follow along the first full season of football in the far north community of Barrow.
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| Petticoat Fisherman |
Subsection
Working in Alaska
Level
Ages 14 & up
Author
Elsa Pedersen
Illustrator
Charles Shaw
Publisher
Atheneum, 1969
After a 17 year-old girl wrecks her father's car, she must work on her father's fishing boat for the summer.
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| Alaska Native Peoples |
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| The War Canoe |
Subsection
Art
Level
Ages 14 & up
Author
Jamie S. Bryson
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 1990, 2009
Teenaged Mickey isn't sure who he is or what he is supposed to do. It would be easy for him to throw his life away, but a vision of a war canoe filled with his Tlingit ancestors and the help of a history teacher and a carver help him find his purpose.
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| Once Upon an Eskimo Time |
Subsection
Inupiat
Level
Ages 14 & up
Author
Edna Wilder
Publisher
University of Alaska Press, 1987
From gathering sea bird eggs on the cliffs of the Bering Sea to picking berries on the tundra, this window in time shows what life was like for a young Inupiat girl before white people arrived in the Far North.
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| Tales of Ticasuk: Eskimo Legends & Stories |
Subsection
Inupiat
Level
Ages 14 & up
Author
Emily Ivanoff Brown "Ticasuk"
Illustrator
Eugene C. and Mary Lou Totten
Publisher
University of Alaska Press, 1987
Emily Ivanoff Brown retells legends from her culture and weaves in her own stories too. A window into another time and place.
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| Winter Walk: A Century-Old Survival Story from the Arctic |
Subsection
Inupiat
Level
Ages 14 & up
Author
Loretta Outwater Cox
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 2003
A young family is at their winter camp running a trapline. But when the father dies, they must make a decision: Do they stay and die like papa or do they risk the long, cold walk back to their village.
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| The War Canoe |
Subsection
Tlingit
Level
Ages 14 & up
Author
Jamie S. Bryson
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 1990, 2009
Teenaged Mickey isn't sure who he is or what he is supposed to do. It would be easy for him to throw his life away, but a vision of a war canoe filled with his Tlingit ancestors and the help of a history teacher and a carver help him find his purpose.
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| Once Upon an Eskimo Time |
Subsection
Way of Life
Level
Ages 14 & up
Author
Edna Wilder
Publisher
University of Alaska Press, 1987
From gathering sea bird eggs on the cliffs of the Bering Sea to picking berries on the tundra, this window in time shows what life was like for a young Inupiat girl before white people arrived in the Far North.
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| The Kids from Nowhere |
Subsection
Way of Life
Level
Ages 14 & up
Author
George Guthridge
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 2006
Kids from Gambell, Alaska win a national academic competition against all odds.
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| Alaska Places |
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| The Kids from Nowhere |
Subsection
Where We Live
Level
Ages 14 & up
Author
George Guthridge
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 2006
Kids from Gambell, Alaska win a national academic competition against all odds.
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| Thunder on the Tundra |
Subsection
Where We Live
Level
Ages 14 & up
Author
Lew Freedman
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 2008
Follow along the first full season of football in the far north community of Barrow.
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| Unseen Companion |
Subsection
Where We Live
Level
Ages 14 & up
Author
Denise Gosliner Orenstein
Publisher
Katherine Tegen, 2003
A compelling story of the interconnected lives of four teenagers in Bethel. The central character is a young man who disappears after being jailed for hitting a teacher.
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| Friends and Families |
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| The War Canoe |
Subsection
Dealing with Change
Level
Ages 14 & up
Author
Jamie S. Bryson
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 1990, 2009
Teenaged Mickey isn't sure who he is or what he is supposed to do. It would be easy for him to throw his life away, but a vision of a war canoe filled with his Tlingit ancestors and the help of a history teacher and a carver help him find his purpose.
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| Unseen Companion |
Subsection
Dealing with Change
Level
Ages 14 & up
Author
Denise Gosliner Orenstein
Publisher
Katherine Tegen, 2003
A compelling story of the interconnected lives of four teenagers in Bethel. The central character is a young man who disappears after being jailed for hitting a teacher.
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| Petticoat Fisherman |
Subsection
Relationships
Level
Ages 14 & up
Author
Elsa Pedersen
Illustrator
Charles Shaw
Publisher
Atheneum, 1969
After a 17 year-old girl wrecks her father's car, she must work on her father's fishing boat for the summer.
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| Unseen Companion |
Subsection
Relationships
Level
Ages 14 & up
Author
Denise Gosliner Orenstein
Publisher
Katherine Tegen, 2003
A compelling story of the interconnected lives of four teenagers in Bethel. The central character is a young man who disappears after being jailed for hitting a teacher.
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| From Alaska's Past |
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| Gold Rush Dogs |
Subsection
Gold Rushes
Level
Ages 14 & up
Author
Claire Rudolf Murphy
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Jane G. Haigh
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 2001
Dogs were great company and protection for lonely miners in the far north. Lots of photos and short stories show why these dogs were so special.
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| Learning Alaska Style |
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| The Kids from Nowhere |
Subsection
Teachers
Level
Ages 14 & up
Author
George Guthridge
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 2006
Kids from Gambell, Alaska win a national academic competition against all odds.
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