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Race to Nome with Rivers and the team ... as they raise funds to rebuild the earthquake-ravaged orphanage. Ride the runners as Lakota deals with cancer, Mike suffers amnesia, and a shady land developer hires snow machiners who are hell bent on stopping them all from reaching Nome. The trail to Nome is full of adventure and intrigue. Meet Stryker, a war dog hero with only three legs, and Geezer, an old abandoned guard dog, as they team up to protect...
3) Ice dogs
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In this survival story set in Alaska, fourteen-year-old Vicky and her dog sled team find an injured sledder in the wilderness.
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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.
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Seth is a teenage deckhand on his father's boat when he and his dog are washed overboard and swept to one of Alaska's small islands where they struggle for months to survive off land and sea, while his desperate father endures his own emotional journey and never gives up hope.
10) Cozy in love
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"When Cozy the musk ox has a clever idea for how to save a trapped friend, his brave efforts help win the heart of the one he admires most"--
12) Cozy
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"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." -- from publisher.
14) Circle of thanks
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An evocation of the beauty and power of the Alaskan tundra and the animals and people who live there.
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"Growing up in the Alaskan wilderness, Jackson has always prided himself on being tough. His family lives in a tiny cabin where their neighbors are grizzlies and wolves. The nearest store is a three-day walk away. Jackson loves his life . . . until a fire destroys the family's cabin, and they have to move to the town of Valdez. Adjusting to fifth grade isn't easy. And then Jakckson has to face an earthquake of terrifying strength. As the ground...
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"May sets out on the last great race on earth as excited as only a good sled dog could be with 1,049 miles of trail ahead of her. Then a mishap leaves the little sled dog lost and alone in the wilds of Alaska. Not particularly wise, brave, or big, May will somehow have to find her way home. It will take all her fortitude to do so"-- Book jacket flap.
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In the second book of The Maze Cutter Trilogy ... Sadina and the islanders are up against both man and nature as they navigate their way to Alaska. There, they hope to meet the mysterious Godhead, unsure of what separates myth from truth. But the Godhead, now led by Alexandra, is fractured. Within the cracks of their sacred trinity, secrets are revealed that blur the lines of good and evil forever. One person’s God is another person’s Devil.--Publisher....
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"Luke knows his I©łupiaq 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 I©łupiaq--or any native language--is forbidden. And Father Mullen, whose fury is like a force...
20) Julie
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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.