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1) The Inuit
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A look at the history and culture of the Inuit, a group of Native American people who live in the Arctic, duscussion tradition and customs as well as contemporary life.
3) Arctic son
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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.
5) The Inuit
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Examines the culture, history, and society of the Inuit.
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Kumak volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
On a beautiful Arctic morning when Kumak and his family go ice fishing, Kumak hooks what seems like an enormous fish, and the entire village gets involved.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"The beloved story of an Inuvialuk girl standing up to the bullies of residential school, updated for a new generation of readers. Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton's powerful story of residential school in the far North has been reissued to commemorate the memoir's 10th anniversary with updates to the text, reflections on the book's impact, and a bonus chapter from the acclaimed follow-up, A Stranger at Home. New content includes a foreword from Dr....
10) Immi's gift
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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.
12) When I was eight
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This book chronicles the unbreakable spirit of an Inuit girl while attending an Arctic residential school.
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"After his parents are brutally murdered, Ahiahia is raised by his grandmother in a camp surrounded by enemies. His grandmother knows that eventually the camp will turn on Ahiahia, just as it did his parents, so she chants a protection chant over the clothing that she lovingly sews for him, over the amulet and necklace she gives him, even over the dog that is his companion. When he is attacked, Ahiahia must use his agility, hunting skills, and the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A look at the fascinating shelters that Native communities in the Far North built, using only materials their environment provided: snow, stone, sod, skin, bones, and any driftwood picked up along the shores. Black-and-white and color drawings show the tools used, and how the snow house, the quarmang, the Alaskan sod-house, and the tent or tupiq were built. And of course, there's information on the classic snow igloo which could be constructed in...
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Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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"In 1921, Inupait seamstress Ada Blackjack joined a a group of four white men who wanted to establish a trading post on Wrangel Island in the freezing Arctic Ocean. The explorers were stranded on the island when their return ship was forced to turn back due to ice. Facing harsh conditions and dwindling food supplies, the men died one by one, but Ada remained. Find out how she alone managed to survive the disastrous expedition"--
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