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Author
Publisher
Inhabit Media Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Germaine Arnaktauyok is one of the Canadian North's most prolific and recognizable artists. In this book, she tells the story of her life in her own words: her 'very traditional Inuk life' growing up in Nunavut at a camp near Igloolik, and her experiences later in a residential school in Chesterfield Inlet; her education as an artist in Winnipeg and Ottawa; and her return to the North, where she continues to create drawings, etchings, and illustrations...
4) Igloos
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Informative, engaging text and vivid photos introduce readers to igloos"--
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
©1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When the plane carrying her to visit her mother crashes above the Arctic Circle, fourteen-year-old Allison Atwood is rescued by an Inupiat man who takes her back to his village, where she slowly comes to admire their very different way of life.
6) Inuit
Author
Series
Publisher
Smart Apple Media
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Details the history and traditional way of life of the Inuit, the native people of the Arctic, as well as their current status and struggle to preserve their culture and identity.
Author
Publisher
Inhabit Media Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Nadia Sammurtok lovingly invites the reader into the amautik--the pouch in the back of a mother's parka used to carry a child--to experience everything through the eyes of the baby nestled inside, from the cloudlike softness of the pouch to the glistening sound of Anaana's laughter."--
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When Allashua disobeys her parents and goes fishing on the sea ice, she has to use her wits to escape the Qallupilluit--the troll-like creatures her parents have always warned her about that live beneath the frozen surface of the sea. But the only way to break out of their grasp is through an exchange: Allashua can go free if she brings her brothers and sisters back to the sea ice instead. Allashua doesn't want to give them up, but what can she do?...
12) Ice drift
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Two Inuit brothers must fend for themselves while stranded on an ice floe that is adrift in the Greenland Strait. The year is 1868, and fourteen-year-old Alika and his younger brother, Sulu, are hunting for seals on an ice floe attached to their island in the Arctic. Suddenly the ice starts to shake, and they hear a loud crack--the terrible sound of the floe breaking free from land. The boys watch with horror as the dark expanse of water between the...
13) Immi's gift
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In 2010, bestselling author Kathleen Winter embarked on a journey across the storied Northwest Passage, among marine scientists, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and curious passengers. From Greenland to Baffin Island and all along the passage, Winter bears witness to the new math of the North, where polar bears mate with grizzlies, creating a new hybrid species; where the earth is on the cusp of yielding so much buried treasure that five...
Author
Publisher
Inhabit Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Simonie loves to dance! When he sees a sign for Taloyoak's annual Christmas Jigging Dance Contest, he can't wait to enter. But practising is hard work, and Simonie starts to worry that he won't do a good job in front of all his friends and neighbours. Luckily, with a little advice from his anaana and ataata, and some help from his friends Dana and David, Simonie learns how to listen to the music and dance the way it makes him feel. When the time...
18) Picture maker
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
"A young American Indian girl ... [who] encounters extraodinary dangers and adventures in her wanderings across North America and into far distant corners of the western hemisphere."--Back cover.
20) Amorak
Author
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
In this retelling of an Inuit creation myth, Grandfather explains why the caribou and the wolf are brothers.
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