Followed by a huge grizzly bear, an Eskimo brother and sister make a perilous trek across the storm-swept tundra to bring back a frozen caribou to their hungry family.
Tired of his mother's overprotectiveness and intrigued by the life of African American explorer Matthew Henson, twelve-year-old Alvin travels north and spends a season with a trapper near the Arctic Circle.
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.
"It's the 1920s, and Bo was headed for an Alaska orphanage when she won the hearts of two tough gold miners who set out to raise her, enthusiastically helped by all the kind people of the nearby Eskimo village"--Provided by publisher.
Color photographs and text describe the traditional ways of life of an Inuit family living in the Canadian Northwest Territories and some of the changes they have had to face.
Hoping to win the return of his two brothers, an Eskimo boy follows the directions of Eagle Mother and learns to dance, sing, and tell stories, so spreading joy throughout the world.