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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Arctic Son Arctic Son Jean Craighead George 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. OL111873W
The middle of everywhere The middle of everywhere Monique Polak Fifteen-year-old Noah leaves Montreal to spend a school term with his dad, a teacher in a small Inuit village in northern Quebec, and is quickly immersed in Inuit culture on an exhilarating winter ca… OL15454839W
Consumption Consumption Kevin Patterson Born in the 1950s in the Canadian Arctic, Victoria grows up among the nomadic Inuit until, at the age of ten, diagnosed with TB, she is sent to a southern sanitarium, where she discovers the wonders … OL15854980W
The snowstorm The snowstorm Jørn Riel In the time of the Vikings, when four friends journey from their Inuit settlement near the Arctic Circle to Helluland (modern Baffin Island) with two dogsled teams, their adventure is disrupted by a … OL16591934W
The shadows that rush past The shadows that rush past Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley Enjoy some of the creepiest, scariest stories from Inuit mythology. These tales are filled with childstealing ogresses; half man, half grizzly bear monsters; ice-covered polar bears ten times the siz… OL18178631W
Magic words Magic words Field, Edward A collection of poems based on songs and stories gathered by Knud Rasmussen on the Fifth Thule Expedition, which recorded Inuit legends about the universe and its creation. OL1850352W
Immi gift Immi gift Karin Littlewood 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 h… OL18713911W
Never say die Never say die Will Hobbs Fifteen-year-old half-Inuit Nick and his white brother, Ryan, meet and share an adventure on the Firth River in the Canadian Arctic, facing white water, wild animals, and fierce weather as Ryan docum… OL24288393W
Caribou Girl Caribou Girl Claire Rudolf Murphy In northern Alaska an Eskimo girl is transformed into a caribou and travels with the herd in order to save her human family from starvation. OL2619752W
Whale snow Whale snow Debby Dahl Edwardson At the first whaling feast of the season, a young Inupiat boy learns about the importance of the bowhead whale to his people and their culture. Includes facts about the Inupiat and the bowhead whale. OL5954392W
Nanuk Nanuk Brian J. Heinz As a huge polar bear hunts seals and a walrus for food to keep itself alive, it is in turn hunted by a young human. OL60408W