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His dark materials volume 1
Language
English
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Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
Author
Series
His dark materials volume 2
Language
English
Description
As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife.
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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The Volunteer, a nineteenth-century Yorkshire whaling ship, becomes the stage for a confrontation between brutal harpooner Henry Drax and ex-army surgeon Patrick Sumner, the ship's medic, during a violent, ill-fated voyage to the Arctic.
A nineteenth-century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard in this dark, sharp, and highly original tale that grips like a thriller. Behold the man: stinking, drunk, and brutal. Henry Drax is...
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Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 12
Language
English
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Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to the Arctic, where a polar bear leads them onto very thin ice.
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 22
Language
English
Description
Ruthless Austrian entrepreneur Edward Bolcke has managed to steal a crucial component of the U.S. Navy's latest submarine technology--and he has found a way to hijack the world's supply of rare earth minerals. The three Pitts, along with longstanding sidekick Al Giordino, use their usual mix of brains and brawn to see that justice is served.
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Series
Fargo adventures volume 6
Language
English
Description
"The outstanding new Fargo adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Baffin Island: Husband-and-wife team Sami and Remi Fargo are on a climate-control expedition in the Arctic, when to their astonishment they discover a Viking ship in the ice, perfectly preserved--and filled with pre-Columbian artifacts from Mexico. How can that be? As they plunge into their research, tantalizing clues about a link between the Vikings and the legendary...
Author
Series
His dark materials volume Prequel
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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Description
In a time before Lyra Silvertongue was born, the tough American balloonist Lee Scoresby and the great armoured bear Iorek Byrnison meet when Lee and his hare daemon Hester crash-land their trading balloon onto a port in the far Arctic North and find themselves right in the middle of a political powder keg.
Fantasy.
Author
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Tigluk and his grandmother paddle out into the Arctic Ocean where they find a young polar bear whose mother has died because of the changes brought about by the warming climate, and they bring the cub back to their town so they can teach it how to survive in a changing world.
12) Arctic son
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A baby boy is given an Inupiat name to go with his English one and grows up learning the traditional ways of the Eskimo people living in the Arctic.
13) The Fire Eternal
Author
Series
Last dragon chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
As the weather grows wilder and the ice caps melt, Arctic bears starve, dragons awake, the earth goddess Gaia becomes restless, and Alexa, the daughter of best-selling author David Rain, uses her special abilities in an attempt to save the world from the forces of evil.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 12
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to the Arctic, where a polar bear leads them onto very thin ice.
18) Immi's gift
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Day after day in the frozen north, a young Inuit girl catches brightly-colored objects while ice fishing and uses them to decorate her igloo, until the ice begins to melt and she drops in a gift of her own before leaving for the season.
19) Pup and bear
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
A stranded wolf cub is rescued and raised by a loving polar bear, and years later when he is grown into a wolf and on his own, he comes upon a lost polar bear cub, and the cycle begins again.
20) Ice
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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A modern-day retelling of "East o' the Sun, West o' the Moon" in which eighteen-year-old Cassie learns that her grandmother's fairy tale is true when a Polar Bear King comes to claim her for his bride and she must decide whether to go with him and save her long-lost mother, or continue helping her father with his research.
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