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Author
Series
Spy school volume 11
Language
English
Description
Superspy middle schoolers Ben and Erica must embark on mission to rescue Erica's grandfather, who was abducted from a remote Alaskan training facility.
2) Ice dogs
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this survival story set in Alaska, fourteen-year-old Vicky and her dog sled team find an injured sledder in the wilderness.
3) Cozy
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
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
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1934, eleven-year-old Terpsichore's father signs up for President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project, uprooting the family from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska, where Terpsichore refuses to let rough conditions and first impressions get in the way of her grand adventure.
5) Ice island
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Tatum's dream of competing in the grueling 1,049-mile Iditerod 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.
Author
Publisher
Switch Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1920s Alaska, when five-year-old Bo and her two adoptive fathers move to Iditarod Creek to work at a new gold mine, Bo feels homesick until she realizes there's friendship to be found everywhere--and Iditarod Creek may hold some surprises for her already unconventional family.
Author
Series
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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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.
Author
Series
Time dogs volume 1
Publisher
Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Follow the dogs Baxter, Trevor, Newton, Maia and Titch as they are transported back in time to 1925 Alaska, now as puppies, and must help Balto complete his mission: deliver medicine during the diphtheria outbreak.
11) Painter and Ugly
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Painter and Ugly, two sled dogs who are inseparable best friends, are put on different teams for the Junior Iditarod, but they manage to find their way back to one another for the big race.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 26
Magic tree house.Merlin mission volume 54
Magic tree house Merlin missions volume 26
Magic tree house.Merlin mission volume 54
Magic tree house Merlin missions volume 26
Language
English
Description
The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system!
The magic tree house has returned and it’s taking Jack and Annie back in time to Alaska, 1925. There they meet Balto, a jet-black Siberian husky destined to save victims of the diphtheria epidemic. But the trail isn’t easy, and Balto is going to need Jack and Annie’s help!
Formerly numbered as Magic...
The magic tree house has returned and it’s taking Jack and Annie back in time to Alaska, 1925. There they meet Balto, a jet-black Siberian husky destined to save victims of the diphtheria epidemic. But the trail isn’t easy, and Balto is going to need Jack and Annie’s help!
Formerly numbered as Magic...
13) Ocean's child
Author
Publisher
Golden Book
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
An expectant mother and her child canoe along the Alaskan Beaufort seacoast, viewing Arctic marine wildlife.
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2011.
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
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In Anchorage, Alaska, two lonely boys make a connection--a brown bear injured just after his mother sends him out on his own, and a human whose father is a new keeper at the Alaska Zoo and whose mother and sister are still in Minnesota.
16) Sled Dog School
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
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.
17) The leaving year
Author
Publisher
SparkPress
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
As the Summer of Love comes to an end, 15-year-old Ida Petrovich waits for a father who never comes home. While commercial fishing in Alaska, he is lost at sea, but with no body and no wreckage, Ida and her mother are forced to accept a "presumed" death that tests their already strained relationship. While still in shock over the loss of her father, Ida overhears an adult conversation that shatters everything she thought she knew about him. This prompts...
18) The dog's meow
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When Mina takes in an abandoned kitten in the outskirts of Fairbanks, Alaska, her team of sled dogs raise the kitten to pant like a dog, play fetch like a dog, and even want to become a sled dog herself.
19) Diamond Willow
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2008]
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.
20) Lily's mountain
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
Unable to believe their father died while climbing Mount Denali, twelve-year-old Lily and her older sister, Sophie, climb the mountain in order to rescue him.
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