| Aleut
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| Aleutian Boy |
Level
Ages 10 & up
Author
Ethel Ross Oliver
Illustrator
Larry Lewton
Publisher
Binfords & Mort, 1959
When two boys are lost in the Aleutians, they use what the Aleut boy knows some of the old ways people used to survive.
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| Aleutian Sparrow |
Level
Ages 12 & up
Author
Karen Hesse
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry, 2003
A moving story of Vera, a teenager who is forced to relocate with her fellow villagers when the Japanese invade the Aleutians.
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| Children of the Midnight Sun: Young Native Voices of Alaska |
Level
Ages 6 to 12
Author
Tricia Brown
Illustrator
Roy Corral
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 1998
Pictures and interviews with children from around Alaska show us what it's like to be a Native Alaskan kid today--Aleut, Athabaskan, Inupiat, Tlingit, Haida, Tshimshian, and Yupik.
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| The Wind Is Not a River |
Level
Ages 8 to 12
Author
Arnold Griese
Illustrator
Glo Coalson
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, 1996
When the Japanese invade the Aleutians, two children escape capture. How do they survive?
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| Art
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| The War Canoe |
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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| Athabascan
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| Anna's Athabascan Summer |
Level
Ages 6 to 9
Author
Arnold Griese
Illustrator
Charles Ragins
Publisher
Boyd Mills, 1995
Spend the summer with Anna and her family at their summer fish camp in Interior Alaska..
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| At the Mouth of the Luckiest River |
Level
Ages 10 & up
Author
Arnold Griese
Illustrator
Glo Coalson
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, 1996
A young Athabascan boy with a twisted foot endures ridicule and becomes a great medicine man.
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| Children of the Midnight Sun: Young Native Voices of Alaska |
Level
Ages 6 to 12
Author
Tricia Brown
Illustrator
Roy Corral
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 1998
Pictures and interviews with children from around Alaska show us what it's like to be a Native Alaskan kid today--Aleut, Athabaskan, Inupiat, Tlingit, Haida, Tshimshian, and Yupik.
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| Diamond Willow |
Level
Ages 10 & up
Author
Helen Frost
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
12 year-old Diamond Willow is more comfortable on a dog sled than in a crowd of people. She tells her story, that includes adventure and a secret, in verse.
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| The Girl Who Swam With the Fish |
Level
Toddlers to 9
Author
Michelle Renner
Illustrator
Christine Cox
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 1995
A young Yup'ik girl can't wait for the salmon to return. She sits by the river watching then falls in. What happen next is a journey that will help her people make sure the salmon always return.
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| The Great Death |
Level
Ages 10 & up
Author
John Smelcer
Publisher
Holt, 2009
Based on a real story, this book tells of a period of great sadness in Alaska when as many as 60-70% of the Alaska Native population died from diseases brought by white people. This story focuses on two sisters who did not die.
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| The Trap |
Level
Ages 10 & up
Author
John Smelcer
Publisher
Holt, 2006
A grandson goes in search of his grandfather who has not returned from checking his trapline. A gripping tale of survival.
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| The Way of Our People |
Level
Ages 10 & up
Author
Arnold Griese
Illustrator
Haru Wells
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, 1997
This is the story of Young Kano, an Athabaskan Indian living in Anvik, a village beside the Yukon River, and how he faced hardship and helped save his village from smallpox.
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| Toughboy and Sister |
Level
Ages 10 & up
Author
Kirkpatrick Hill
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry, 1990
An 11 year-old Athabascan boy and his younger sister are left on their own at fish camp when their dad gets drunk and disappears. A realistic survival tale.
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| Winter Camp |
Level
Ages 10 & up
Author
Kirkpatrick Hill
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry, 1993
Can Tough Boy and Sister survive alone at 50 below zero?
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| Haida
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| Children of the Midnight Sun: Young Native Voices of Alaska |
Level
Ages 6 to 12
Author
Tricia Brown
Illustrator
Roy Corral
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 1998
Pictures and interviews with children from around Alaska show us what it's like to be a Native Alaskan kid today--Aleut, Athabaskan, Inupiat, Tlingit, Haida, Tshimshian, and Yupik.
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| Inupiat
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| Arctic Hunter |
Level
Ages 6 to 12
Author
Dianne Hoyt-Goldsmith
Illustrator
Lawrence Migdale
Publisher
Holiday House, 1992
Join this Inupiat family on their annual spring camp trip to hunt and fish. Learn how a modern Arctic family mixes old ways with the new.
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| Arctic Thaw: The People of the Whale in a Changing Climate |
Level
Ages 10 & up
Author
Peter Lourie
Publisher
Boyds Mills, 2007
How will global warming impact the Inupiat people of the Far North?
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| Berry Woman's Children |
Level
Toddlers to 9
Author
Dale DeArmond
Illustrator
Dale DeArmond
Publisher
William Morrow, 1985
An Inupiat Grandmother tells stories of the animals and birds that Raven asked Berry Woman to look after.
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| Blessing's Bead |
Level
Ages 10 & up
Author
Debby Dahl Edwardson
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009
A novel for young adults about love, loss, and finding your way home.
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| Caribou Girl |
Level
Ages 6 to 9
Author
Claire Rudolf Murphy
Illustrator
Linda Russell
Publisher
Roberts Rinehart, 1998
Caribou Girl sets out to find the caribou her family needs to survive.
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| Children of the Midnight Sun: Young Native Voices of Alaska |
Level
Ages 6 to 12
Author
Tricia Brown
Illustrator
Roy Corral
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 1998
Pictures and interviews with children from around Alaska show us what it's like to be a Native Alaskan kid today--Aleut, Athabaskan, Inupiat, Tlingit, Haida, Tshimshian, and Yupik.
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| Eskimo Boy: Life in an Inupiaq Eskimo Village |
Level
Ages 6 to 12
Author
Russ Kendall
Illustrator
Russ Kendall
Publisher
Scholastic, 1992
A year in the life of a 7 year-old boy from Shishmaref, Alaska with photographs.
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| Go Home, River |
Level
Toddlers to 9
Author
James S. Magdanz
Illustrator
Dianne Widom
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 1996
Where does the river begin? Travel back in time and along the river from its beginning to the coast where Inupiat Eskimos gathered for a big festival.
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| Julie |
Level
Ages 10 & up
Author
Jean Craighead George
Publisher
HarperCollins, 1994
In this sequel to Julie of the Wolves, Julie returns to her village after living in the wilderness for months among the wolves and finds much has changed.
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| Julie of the Wolves |
Level
Ages 10 & up
Author
Jean Craighead George
Publisher
HarperCollins, 1972
After running away from her Inupiat Eskimo village, Julie finds friendship and safety among a pack of Arctic wolves. She can't live that way forever. She has to choose between the old ways and the new.
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| Julie's Wolf Pack |
Level
Ages 10 & up
Author
Jean Craighead George
Publisher
HarperCollins, 1997
In this third book in the Julie series, the story follows the wolf pack that saved Julie in book one.
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| King Island Christmas |
Level
Toddlers to 9
Author
Jean Rogers
Illustrator
Rie Mu¤oz
Publisher
Greenwillow, 1985
Experience winter and Christmas on King Island, a remote island off the coast of Alaska.
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| Kumak's Fish: A Tall Tale from the Far North |
Level
Toddlers to 9
Author
Michael Bania
Illustrator
Michael Bania
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 2004
Kumak and his family go ice fishing. Everyone is catching fish, but Kumak is waiting for his uncle's special hook to work it's magic. Before long, the whole village is helping Kumak land his fish.
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| Mama, Do You Love Me? |
Level
Toddlers to 9
Author
Barbara M. Joose
Illustrator
Barbara Lavallee
Publisher
Chronicle, 1991
A little Inuit girl tests her mother's love and yes, mama does love her in spite of all her mischief.
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| Neeluk : An Eskimo boy in the Days of the Whaling Ships |
Level
Ages 6 to 12
Author
Frances Kittredge
Illustrator
Howard "Weyahok" Rock
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 2001
Travel back in time and see what life was like in a small arctic village at the time of the great whaling ships.
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| Once Upon an Eskimo Time |
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 |
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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| The Boy Who Found the Light: Eskimo Folktales |
Level
Ages 10 & up
Author
Dale DeArmond
Illustrator
Dale DeArmond
Publisher
Sierra Club Books/Little Brown, 1990
Dale DeArmond's classic woodcuts illustrate this retelling of three Eskimo folktales.
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| The Lamp, the Ice and the Boat Called Fish: Based On a True Story |
Level
Toddlers to 9
Author
Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Illustrator
Beth Krommes
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin, 2001
Based on a true story, read how a boat's crew survives a winter trapped in the Arctic ice.
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| The Seal Oil Lamp |
Level
All Ages
Author
Dale DeArmond
Illustrator
Dale DeArmond
Publisher
Sierra Club Books, 1998
Based on an Eskimo folktale, this is the story of a blind boy whose life is saved by the mouse people.
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| The Seasons and Someone |
Level
Toddlers to 9
Author
Virginia Kroll
Illustrator
Tatsuro Kiuchi
Publisher
Harcourt Brace, 1994
A little girl who calls herself "Someone" shares what is special about each season in the far north.
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| Water Sky |
Level
Ages 12 & up
Author
Jean Craighead George
Publisher
Harper & Row, 1987
A young man comes to Barrow looking for his uncle and is ultimately confronted with a dilemma--to hunt the whale or save it.
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| Whale Snow |
Level
Toddlers to 9
Author
Debby Dahl Edwardson
Illustrator
Annie Patterson
Publisher
Charlesbridge, 2003
Whale snow is the fat snow that falls in the spring--the time of whale hunting. What does it mean to a place like Barrow when a whale is killed and shared by the community?
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| Whaling Season: A Year in the Life of an Arctic Whale Scientist |
Level
Ages 12 & up
Author
Peter Lourie
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin, 2009
Craig George is the son of children's author Jean Craighead George. He is a scientist who studies whales from Barrow. What would it be like to have his job for a year. Find out in this book!
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| Winter Walk: A Century-Old Survival Story from the Arctic |
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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| Tlingit
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| A Totem Tale |
Level
Ages 6 to 9
Author
Deb Vanasse
Illustrator
Erik Brooks
Publisher
Sasquatch Books, 2006
Find out when the creatures in a totem pole come to life: beaver, bear, raven, eagle, wolf, and frog. The story behind the pole is a key.
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| Children of the Midnight Sun: Young Native Voices of Alaska |
Level
Ages 6 to 12
Author
Tricia Brown
Illustrator
Roy Corral
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 1998
Pictures and interviews with children from around Alaska show us what it's like to be a Native Alaskan kid today--Aleut, Athabaskan, Inupiat, Tlingit, Haida, Tshimshian, and Yupik.
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| Kahtahah |
Level
Ages 6 to 12
Author
Frances Lackey Paul
Illustrator
Rie Mu¤oz
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 2000
Read what life was like for a young Tlingit girl in the 1800s.
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| Meet Lydia: A Native Girl from Southeast Alaska |
Level
Ages 10 & up
Author
Miranda Belarde-Lewis
Illustrator
John Harrington
Publisher
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in association with Council Oak Books, 2004
Part of the "My World" series of photographic books, this volume introduces Lydia, a young Tlingit girl, and her modern-day life.
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| Raven House Mouse |
Level
Toddlers to 9
Author
Jan Steinbright
Illustrator
Robert Davis
Publisher
Winternights Publishing, 2007
A lonely orphan mouse finds a home in a Tlingit Clan House.
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| The War Canoe |
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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| Touching Spirit Bear |
Level
Ages 12 & up
Author
Ben Mikaelsen
Publisher
HarperCollins, 2001
Cole is banished to a year in the wilderness after he severely injures a boy in a fight.
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| Tsimshian
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| Children of the Midnight Sun: Young Native Voices of Alaska |
Level
Ages 6 to 12
Author
Tricia Brown
Illustrator
Roy Corral
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 1998
Pictures and interviews with children from around Alaska show us what it's like to be a Native Alaskan kid today--Aleut, Athabaskan, Inupiat, Tlingit, Haida, Tshimshian, and Yupik.
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| The Prince and the Salmon People |
Level
Ages 10 & up
Author
Claire Rudolf Murphy
Illustrator
Duane Pasco
Publisher
Eastern Washington University Press, 2003
In this legend a young prince travels to the world under the water and learns why the fish no longer returned to his village.
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| Way of Life
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| A Totem Tale |
Level
Ages 6 to 9
Author
Deb Vanasse
Illustrator
Erik Brooks
Publisher
Sasquatch Books, 2006
Find out when the creatures in a totem pole come to life: beaver, bear, raven, eagle, wolf, and frog. The story behind the pole is a key.
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| Anna's Athabascan Summer |
Level
Ages 6 to 9
Author
Arnold Griese
Illustrator
Charles Ragins
Publisher
Boyd Mills, 1995
Spend the summer with Anna and her family at their summer fish camp in Interior Alaska..
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| Arctic Hunter |
Level
Ages 6 to 12
Author
Dianne Hoyt-Goldsmith
Illustrator
Lawrence Migdale
Publisher
Holiday House, 1992
Join this Inupiat family on their annual trip to spring camp to hunt and fish. Learn how a modern Arctic family mixes old ways with the new.
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| At the Mouth of the Luckiest River |
Level
Ages 10 & up
Author
Arnold Griese
Illustrator
Glo Coalson
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, 1996
A young Athabascan boy with a twisted foot endures ridicule and becomes a great medicine man.
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| Children of the Midnight Sun: Young Native Voices of Alaska |
Level
Ages 6 to 12
Author
Tricia Brown
Illustrator
Roy Corral
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 1998
Pictures and interviews with children from around Alaska show us what it's like to be a Native Alaskan kid today--Aleut, Athabaskan, Inupiat, Tlingit, Haida, Tshimshian, and Yupik.
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| Dance on a Sealskin |
Level
Toddlers to 9
Author
Barbara Winslow
Illustrator
Teri Sloat
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 1995
Annie is nervous about dancing in front of the entire village for the first time. Why is it so important to learn the dances of her ancestors?
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| Kitaq Goes Ice Fishing |
Level
Toddlers to 9
Author
Margaret Nicolai
Illustrator
David Rubin
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 1998
Little Kitaq can go ice fishing with his Grandpa IF he can walk all the way to the river and back. Does he catch fish for his family and does he keep his promise?
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| Kumak's Fish: A Tall Tale from the Far North |
Level
Toddlers to 9
Author
Michael Bania
Illustrator
Michael Bania
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 2004
Kumak and his family go ice fishing. Everyone is catching fish, but Kumak is waiting for his uncle's special hook to work it's magic. Before long, the whole village is helping Kumak land his fish.
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| Once Upon an Eskimo Time |
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 Girl Who Swam With the Fish |
Level
Toddlers to 9
Author
Michelle Renner
Illustrator
Christine Cox
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 1995
A young Yup'ik girl can't wait for the salmon to return. She sits by the river watching then falls in. What happen next is a journey that will help her people make sure the salmon always return.
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| The Kids from Nowhere |
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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| The Prince and the Salmon People |
Level
Ages 10 & up
Author
Claire Rudolf Murphy
Illustrator
Duane Pasco
Publisher
Eastern Washington University Press, 2003
In this legend a young prince travels to the world under the water and learns why the fish no longer returned to his village.
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| The Way of Our People |
Level
Ages 10 & up
Author
Arnold Griese
Illustrator
Haru Wells
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, 1997
This is the story of Young Kano, an Athabaskan Indian living in Anvik, a village beside the Yukon River, and how he faced hardship and helped save his village from smallpox.
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| Touching Spirit Bear |
Level
Ages 12 & up
Author
Ben Mikaelsen
Publisher
HarperCollins, 2001
Cole is banished to a year in the wilderness after he severely injures a boy in a fight.
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| Water Sky |
Level
Ages 12 & up
Author
Jean Craighead George
Publisher
Harper & Row, 1987
A young man comes to Barrow looking for his uncle and is ultimately confronted with a dilemma--to hunt the whale or save it.
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| Whaling Season: A Year in the Life of an Arctic Whale Scientist |
Level
Ages 12 & up
Author
Peter Lourie
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin, 2009
Craig George is the son of children's author Jean Craighead George. He is a scientist who studies whales from Barrow. What would it be like to have his job for a year. Find out in this book!
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| Yup'ik
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| A Distant Enemy |
Level
Ages 10 & up
Author
Deb Vanasse
Publisher
Lodestar/Dutton, 1997
Joseph is half-white, half-Yup'ik and he is angry. He's mad because his father isn't around and because he can't decide who he really wants to be. Adventure-filled and a great view of village life in rural Alaska.
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| Berry Magic |
Level
Toddlers to 9
Author
Teri Sloat and Betty Huffmon
Illustrator
Teri Sloat
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 2004
Find out how Alaskan berries got their colors at yummy tastes. Would you believe it was a young girl and her dolls?
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| Children of the Midnight Sun: Young Native Voices of Alaska |
Level
Ages 6 to 12
Author
Tricia Brown
Illustrator
Roy Corral
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 1998
Pictures and interviews with children from around Alaska show us what it's like to be a Native Alaskan kid today--Aleut, Athabaskan, Inupiat, Tlingit, Haida, Tshimshian, and Yupik.
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| Dance on a Sealskin |
Level
Toddlers to 9
Author
Barbara Winslow
Illustrator
Teri Sloat
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 1995
Annie is nervous about dancing in front of the entire village for the first time. Why is it so important to learn the dances of her ancestors?
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| Goodbye, My Island |
Level
Ages 6 to 12
Author
Jean Rogers
Illustrator
Rie Mu¤oz
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 1983, 2001
A 12 year-old girl faces change as all the people in her village decide they have to leave their special island for good. Live through the last year people lived on remote King Island in Alaska.
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| Kitaq Goes Ice Fishing |
Level
Toddlers to 9
Author
Margaret Nicolai
Illustrator
David Rubin
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 1998
Little Kitaq can go ice fishing with his Grandpa IF he can walk all the way to the river and back. Does he catch fish for his family and does he keep his promise?
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| Runaway Mittens |
Level
Toddlers to 9
Author
Jean Rogers
Illustrator
Rie Mu¤oz
Publisher
Greenwillow, 1988
Pica lives in the far north where mittens are a must if one wants to have any fun, but his mittens keep getting lost.
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| The Eye of the Needle |
Level
Toddlers to 9
Author
Teri Sloat
Illustrator
Teri Sloat
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, 2001
In this legend, after a very long winter, a very hungry boy goes out in search of food. Will he eat everything he sees or will he bring back anything to his village?
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