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J Nonfiction
Journey to the Top of the World by Janet Foster
Text and photographs present the plant and animal life encountered on a journey across the Canadian Arctic and introduce some of the permanent inhabitants and scientists who work there. J 577.09113
Life on Ice : How Animals Survive in the Arctic by Seymour Simon
Describes how various Arctic animals survive despite the extreme weather conditions and the threats posed by man. J 591.709113
The North Pole was Here by Andrew C. Revkin
Discover the North Pole and the arctic ice that covers the ocean water there. J 919.804
Secret Language of Snow by Terry Tempest Williams
Examines over a dozen different types of snow and snowy conditions through the vocabulary of the Inuit people of Alaska. Discusses the physical properties and formation of the snow and how it affects the plants, animals, and people of the Arctic. J 551.57
To the Top of the World: Adventures with Arctic Wolves by Jim Brandenburg
A wildlife photographer records in text and photographs two visits to Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories, where he filmed a pack of Arctic wolves over several months. J 599.773
Woodsong by Gary Paulsen
For a rugged outdoor man and his family, life in northern Minnesota is a wild experience involving wolves, deer, and the sled dogs that make their way of life possible. Includes an account of the author's first Iditarod, a dogsled race across Alaska. J 796.5
Adult Nonfiction
Three Among the Wolves by Helen Thayer
Helen and Bill Thayer, accompanied by their part-wolf, mostly Husky dog, Charlie, set out on foot to live among wild wolf packs--first in the Canadian Yukon and then in the Arctic. 599.773
The Way of the Wolf by L. David Mech
The Way of the Wolf focuses on wolf behavior and biology, offering an overview of the animals' social hierarchy, communication methods, feeding habits, courtship, and reproduction. 599.773
J Fiction
The Good Dog byAvi
McKinley, a malamute, is torn between the domestic world of his human family and the wild world of Lupin, a wolf that is trying to recruit dogs to replenish the dwindling wolf pack.
Runt byMarion DaneBauer
Runt, the smallest wolf cub in the litter, seeks to prove himself to his father King and the rest of the pack and to earn a new name
The 7 Professors of the Far North by John Fardell
Eleven-year-old Sam finds himself involved in a dangerous adventure when he and his new friends, brother and sister Ben and Zara, set off for the Arctic to try and rescue the siblings' great-uncle and five other professors from the mad scientist holding them prisoner.
Julie by Jean Craighead George
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.
Julie's Wolf Pack byJean Craighead George
Continues the story of Julie and her wolves in which Kapu must protect his pack from famine and disease while uniting it under his new leadership.
Boston Jane: Wilderness Days by by Jennifer L. Holm
Far from her native Philadelphia, Miss Jane Peck continues to prove that she's more than an etiquette-schooled graduate of Miss Hepplewhite's Young Ladies Academy as she braves the untamed wilderness of Washington Territory in the mid 1850s. J PB
Frozen Fire: a Tale of Courage by James Houston
Determined to find his father who has been lost in a storm, a young boy and his Eskimo friend brave wind storms, starvation, wild animals and wild men during their search in the Canadian Arctic.
Kavik the Wolf Dog byWaltMorey
A wolf-dog instinctively travels 2000 miles from Washington to Alaska to return to the boy who once saved his life.
Scrub Dog of Alaska by byWaltMorey
After a runt sled dog is raised by a young boy, the dog's cruel owner demands his return.
Dogsong by Gary Paulsen
A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels at odds with aspects of modern life takes a 1400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own "song" of himself.
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
Frozen Stiff by Sherry Shahan
Cousins Cody and Derek take a kayak trip in Alaska and find themselves battling the raw elements of an untamed wilderness.
Ice Drift by Theodore Taylor
Two Inuit brothers must fend for themselves while stranded on an ice floe that is adrift in the Greenland Strait.
Young Adult Fiction
Williwaw by Tom Bodett
In their father's absence, thirteen-year-old September and her younger brother Ivan disobey his orders by taking the boat out on their Alaska bay, where they are caught in a terrifying storm called a williwaw.
(YA PB)
Boston Jane: an Adventure by Jennifer L. Holm
Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.
Adult Fiction
Call of the Wild by Jack London
The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack. Special edition with introduction by Gary Paulsen and illustrated by Barry Moser