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5) Snow buddies
Publisher
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The talking puppies are back, and this time they venture to the frosty arctic and team up with new friends in an exciting dogsled race across Alaska. When the going gets tough, the daring dogs have to band together with their new friends, Talon and Shasta, and muster up the courage to face the fur-raising challenges ahead. But will the puppies have what it takes to win the race and find their way back home?
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost where salmonberries sparkle in the morning frost and where you just might catch a King Salmon if you're zen enough to wait for it. Settled in 1935 by Norse fishermen who liked to skinny dip in its natural hot springs, the town enjoyed prosperity in the mid-20th Century, at the height of the frozen fish boom. But now the cold storage plant is all but abandoned and the population is shrinking every...
Author
Series
Yukon quest volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young girl escaping an arranged marriage and a man looking to bolster his family's shipping business are brought together in 1897 Alaska.
8) Alaska
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Publisher
Discovery Communications
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Looks at the dangers and discomforts suffered by those pursuing Alaska king crab and Alaska snow crab during the short seasons allowed, for rather substantial profits. Follows the decisions and fortunes of several individuals, boats and captains during the frantic days long crab seasons.
11) Cozy
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
An alternate history novel in which Alaska was established as the Jewish homeland after World War II and fifty years later the inhabitants are being forced to leave their neighborhoods, but before moving, detective Meyer Landsman is determined to find his neighbor's murderer and uncover the truth behind his sister's accidental death.
Author
Series
I survived volume 23
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
It was 1964 in the brand-new state of Alaska, a vast land of staggering beauty and heart-stopping dangers. Eleven-year-old Jack had grown up living happily with his parents in an off-the-grid cabin, miles from their closest neighbors. Grizzlies and wolves outnumbered people, and dark winter days were 30 degrees below zero. Jack had always thought of himself as strong--"Alaska tough". But then the most powerful earthquake in American history--the Good...
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Jessie Arnold has decided to forego the Iditarod in favor of the more treacherous Yukon Quest, but she is distracted from the race by her faltering relationship with longtime friend and lover Alex Jensen, and the going really gets rough when her young competitor Debbie Todd is kidnapped off the trail.
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
The mystery of Norm Lewis's disappearance is thought to be solved with the spring thaw when his Cessna is discovered half submerged in the waters of an isolated Alaskan lake, but state trooper Alex Jensen is handed another riddle when the only body found in the plane is an unidentified woman, apparently dead of bullet wounds, and Norm is nowhere to be found.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this coming-of-middle-age memoir, Kim Heacox, writing in the tradition of Abbey, McPhee, and Thoreau, discovers an Alaska reborn from beneath a massive glacier, where flowers emerge from boulders, moose swim fjords, and bears cross crevasses with Homeric resolve. In such a place Heacox finds that people are reborn too, and their lives begin anew with incredible journeys, epiphanies, and successes. All in an America free of crass commercialism and...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Dazzling ... Vann knows the darkness but he writes from the compassionate light of art. This is an essential book." -Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain "Exceptional ... An unflinching portrait of bad faith and bad dreams." -Ron Rash, author of Burning Bright Set against the backdrop of Alaska's unforgiving wilderness, Caribou Island is David Vann's dark and captivating tale of a marriage pulled...
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