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21) The sea-wolf
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
A thrilling epic of a sea voyage and a complex novel of ideas. The Sea Wolf is a standard-bearer of its genre. The vivid story of a gentleman scholar's rescue and subsequent ordeal at the hands of a hunting schooner's brutal captain and devious crew. It remains one of Jack London's finest achievements.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A nonfiction picture book tracing the repercussions of what would happen if polar bears disappeared from our planet. The freezing ecosystem in the far north of the globe is home to many different kinds of animals. They can be strong like a walrus, tough like a lemming, and sometimes hard to see like the polar bear. Their habitat is melting at an alarming rate. As the Arctic ice melts, polar bears are threatened with extinction, which could affect...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Northern Lights reveals Scotland's previously unsung role in the remarkable history of Arctic exploration. There was the intrepid John Ross, an eccentric hell-raiser from Stranraer and a veteran of three Arctic expeditions; his nephew, James Clark Ross, the most experienced explorer of his generation and discoverer of the Magnetic North Pole; Dr. John Richardson of Dumfries, who became an accidental cannibal and deliberate executionaer of a murderer...
24) Icefire
Author
Series
Last dragon chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
While researching the existence of dragons for an essay that could win him a trip to the Arctic, Chris opens himself to the possibility that a great, ancient treasure exists there, guarded by bears, and that he has some role in its protection.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Duane the polar bear and the other animals of the very, very far north find their friendships deepening as they are challenged by the arrival of a contentious weasel and an unexpected departure.
26) City of ice
Author
Series
City trilogy (Laurence Yep) volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
From the islands of Hawaii, Scirye and her loyal companions pursue the villainous Mr. Roland and evil dragon Badik all the way to the city of Nova Hafnia in the icy Arctic Circle, to prevent Roland from obtaining the power to alter the universe.
27) Serpentine
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lyra and Pan journey to the far North once more, seeking advice from the Consul of Witches. A short story that takes place after the events of "The amber spyglass."
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Badly battered by an apocalyptic storm, the crew of the Arctic Promise find themselves in increasingly dire circumstances as they sail blindly into unfamiliar waters and an ominously thickening fog. Without functioning navigation or communication equipment, they are lost and completely alone. One by one, the men fall prey to a mysterious illness. Deckhand Noah Cabot is the only person unaffected by the strange force plaguing the ship and her crew,...
29) The greatest polar expedition of all time: the Arctic mission to the epicenter of climate change
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A captain's tell-all about the world's largest Arctic expedition--an illuminating account of seafaring adventure, Arctic natural history, and cutting-edge climate science. The book about the Mosaic Expedition: as seen in the documentary film Arctic Drift, Atmospheric scientist Markus Rex recounts the monumental Arctic expedition he captained for one year in this gripping and authoritative book. A groundbreaking step towards understanding the climate...
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"As the Earth's climate continues to warm, the permafrost melts, glaciers are receding and ice patches are shrinking. It is a unique time on our planet, one that has resulted in a treasury of preserved organic material (e.g., caribou droppings and human and animal remains) and inorganic artifacts (e.g., tools and clothing) is being revealed by the big melt, providing us with entirely new information about how people and animals lived up to several...
Author
Series
His dark materials volume Prequel
Language
English
Formats
Description
American balloonist Lee Scoresby and the great armored bear Iorek Byrnison meet when Lee and his hare daemon Hester crash-land their trading balloon onto a port in the far Arctic North and find themselves in the middle of a political powder keg.
36) Among the living
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Estranged friends Dean and Bethan meet after five years apart when they are drawn to a network of caves on a remote Arctic island. Bethan and her friends are environmental activists, determined to protect the land. But Dean's group's exploitation of rare earth minerals deep in the caves unleashes an horrific contagion that has rested frozen and undisturbed for many millennia. Fleeing the terrors emerging from the caves, Dean and Bethan and their rival...
37) To the Arctic
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Takes you on a never before seen journey into the lives of a mother polar bear and her two seven-month-old cubs as they navigate the changing Arctic wilderness they call home.
38) Girl in ice
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of The River at Night and Into the Jungle comes a harrowing new thriller as a linguist, broken-hearted after the apparent suicide of her glaciologist brother, ventures hundreds of miles north of the Arctic Circle to try to communicate with a young girl who has thawed from the ice alive"--
Valerie "Val" Chesterfield is a linguist trained in the most esoteric of disciplines: dead Nordic languages. Despite her successful career, she...
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Arctic: culture and climate explores the history of the Circumpolar North and its peoples through the lens of climate change and weather, drawing on a wealth of objects, artworks, and voices--from past and present--to show how Arctic Peoples and their cultural traditions have continued to thrive amid both social and environmental change"--Publisher website.
Author
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"On a journey to the North Pole and back, and from fall to spring, the story begins and ends with an extraordinary wood frog, a tiny creature that freezes for the long Arctic winter. On the way we meet polar bears, an arctic fox, narwhals, and many other animals."--Back cover.
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