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Author
Series
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
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.
4) Ice whale
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Appears on list
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) Julie
Author
Series
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
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.
8) Dogsong
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels at odds with aspects of modern life takes a 1400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own "song" of himself.
9) Berry magic
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Long ago, the only berries on the tundra were hard, tasteless, little crowberries. When Anana sings, she turns four dolls into little girls who run and tumble over the tundra creating patches of fat, juicy berries: blueberries, cranberries, salmonberries, and raspberries.
11) Water sky
Author
Pub. Date
1989, c1987
Language
English
Description
A boy who goes to Barrow, Alaska, to live with friends of his father for a while learns the importance of whaling to the Eskimo culture.
14) Lost and found
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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.
15) Never say die
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old half-Inuit Nick and his white brother, Ryan, meet and share an adventure on the Firth River in the Canadian Arctic, facing white water, wild animals, and fierce weather as Ryan documents the effects of climate change on caribou for National Geographic magazine.
16) Whale snow
Author
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
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.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Robert Flaherty made this wonderful film of Eskimo (Inuit) life following six years as an Artic explorer for the Canadian Northern Railway. Flaherty seized upon the idea of structuring his movie around characters who reenacted episodes of their lives and participated in the shaping of the film. He was not trained as an anthropologist, but Flaherty wisely guides our discovery of the people and their activities, and ninety years later, Nanook of the...
18) Ice drift
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Two Inuit brothers must fend for themselves while stranded on an ice floe that is adrift in the Greenland Strait.
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