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Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Robbie Daniels, happy to get a job aboard a troller fishing for king salmon off southeastern Alaska, finds himself in danger when he discovers that his mysterious captain is searching for long-buried Russian plaques that lay claim to Alaska and the Northwest.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life
3) Swift
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
[41] p. : col. ill., map ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Johnny has wanted to help Pa and their dog Swift hunt for the winter's meat almost since he was born, but when a grizzly's lightning attack mangles Pa's leg, Johnny and Swift have to make their way through the forest and down the river to bring back help--and a wounded bear attacks with no warning
Author
Language
English
Description
In a remote area of Alaska, twelve-year-old Willow helps her father with their sled dogs when she is not at school, wishing she were more popular, all the while unaware that the animals surrounding her carry the spirits of dead ancestors and friends who care for her
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When he is kicked out of his first year of college in Anchorage, eighteen-year-old Eddie Ashford promises the university officials to work for one year at the newspaper in Kusko, Alaska, which is a small, depressing town in back-of-beyond, where it requires either a plane or a dog-sled to get around for most of the time--but staying straight is a challenge, especially when he gets caught up in the local marijuana trade.
7) Cozy
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
The coat of a huge wooly musk ox named Cozy is the winter home for a growing number of Alaskan animals who mostly get along.
Author
Language
English
Description
After fourteen-year-old Andy slips away from his kayaking group to visit the wilderness site of his archaeologist father's death, a storm strands him on Admiralty Island, Alaska, where he manages to survive, encounters unexpected animal and human inhabitants, and looks for traces of the earliest prehistoric immigrants to America
9) Ice dogs
Author
Language
English
Description
In this survival story set in Alaska, fourteen-year-old Vicky and her dog sled team find an injured sledder in the wilderness.
10) Prickly Rose
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A rhyming story about a girl named Prickly Rose, who follows her ten-foot tall sister Sitka north, riding orcas, and reshaping Alaska's coasts and mountains.
11) Sled Dog School
Author
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Matt must set up a business to save his failing math grade, he overcomes his self-doubt and also gains two friends along the way.
Author
Series
Spy school volume 11
Language
English
Description
"Ben Ripley and his friends are training in Alaska when Cyrus Hale is kidnapped by his old Russian nemesis. Ben, Erica, and the others mount a rescue mission, but events quickly spiral out of control in a plot involving the secret history of US-Russian relations, a young KGB agent with skills to rival Erica's--and lots and lots of bears" --
16) Julie
Author
Series
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 2
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
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alaskans Luke, Chickie, Sonny, Donna, and Amiq relate their experiences in the early 1960s when they are forced to attend a Catholic boarding school where, despite different tribal affiliations, they come to find a sort of family and home
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 38
Language
English
Description
On a vacation to Alaska, Jordan Blake and his sister, Nicole, encounter the Abominable Snowman.
19) Sunrise summer
Author
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Each summer, a young girl and her family travel to remote Egegik, Alaska, where they join a salmon fishing crew.
20) Hear the wolves
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Language
English
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Description
Sloan Riley is a skilled hunter, but since her mother left, and she lost hearing in one ear, she has clung to her father and older sister, so waking up and discovering they have left her for a few days terrifies her--but when an autumn blizzard threatens to bury her small Alaskan town, and the wolves begin to hunt, she must find her courage if she is to get herself and the few remaining citizens to safety beyond the forest.
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