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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. This gripping, graphic survival story from an award-winning writer paints an unsparing picture of one violent teen and offers a poignant testimony to the power of pain that can...
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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.
3) Julie
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Julie's decision to return home to her people is not an easy one. But after many months in the wilderness, living in harmony with the wolves that saved her life, she knows the time has come. Julie is not prepared, however, for all the changes that she finds. Her father has forsaken many of the old Eskimo traditions. He has given up his sled dogs for a snowmobile, and now look after the musk oxen that serve as the village's income. He will do anything...
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"Luke knows his Iñupiaq name is full of sounds white people can't say. So he leaves it behind when he and his brothers are sent to boarding school hundreds of miles away from their Arctic village. At Sacred Heart School, students--Eskimo, Indian, White--line up on different sides of the cafeteria like there's some kind of war going on. Here, speaking Iñupiaq--or any native language--is forbidden. And Father Mullen, whose fury is like a force of...
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Raven duet volume 2
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English
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In Alaska in the middle of the twenty-first century, Jase is drafted by a Native American trickster spirit to help stop a bio-plague caused by disruptions in the earth's flow of magic, and finds himself in the middle of a shapeshifter war.
6) The trap
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Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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In alternating chapters, seventeen-year-old Johnny Least-Weasel, who is better known for brains than brawn, worries about his missing grandfather, and the grandfather, Albert Least-Weasel, struggles to survive, caught in his own steel trap in the Alaskan winter.
9) Ice Island
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Thirteen-year-old Tatum's dream of competing in the grueling 1,049-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race may be at an end when she becomes lost in a freak snowstorm during a training run on Alaska's remote Santa Ysabel Island.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"A blizzard blows through Qyah, Alaska, and the school roof caves in! Luckily, Molly knows just how to raise the money to fix it...a winter carnival! When Molly wants to build the most amazing maze for the carnival, she discovers she need a little help from her friends--and a lot of help from a map!"-- Back cover.
11) Salmon summer
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Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
1998
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English
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A photo essay describing a young native Alaskan boy fishing for salmon on Kodiak Island as his ancestors have done for generations.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Whether it's searching for a lost sled dog or canoeing to a secret blueberry-picking spot, Molly is always up for an adventure! Explore Alaska with Molly and her friends in this portable five-book I Can Read box set."--Back of box
13) The Great Death
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Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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As their Alaskan village's only survivors of sickness brought by white men one winter early in the twentieth century, sisters Millie, aged thirteen, and Maura, ten, make their way south in hopes of finding someone alive.
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