alaska

Nine-year-old J.T. Kinnaman is given his first llama to raise on his family's Alaskan ranch.

Sent out by his grandmother to find food, Amik consumes a series of animals of ever-increasing size and brings back more than he thinks.

Photographs and text present the experiences and way of life of Tlingit, Athabascan, Yupik, and other Native American children in the villages, cities, and bush areas of Alaska.

Poems about Alaska's beautiful but brief spring, summer and fall seasons, which provide a short respite from the cold, dark winter.

Eighty-eight-year-old explorer Norman Vaughan revisits the Queen Maude Mountains in Antarctica to climb the mountain named for him 65 years earlier by Admiral Richard E. Byrd; twelve-year-old adventurer Merrick Johnston becomes the youngest person ever to scale Denali, North America's highest peak.

Introduces the history, geography, and culture of the Tlingit people in Southeast Alaska through the daily lives of children who live there.

Explains the history of the Iditarod sled dog race from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska. Offers information on qualifying, the route, the rules, and the dangers of the race. Includes profiles of famous mushers and dogs, color photographs, fact boxes, and a glossary.

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.

Episodes in the life of Alaskan teenager, Norman Tuttle, as he grows from ages thirteen to fifteen, falls in love for the first time, and deepens his relationship with his father.