Jean Craighead George
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A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
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Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 1
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13-year-old Julie Miyax Kapugen, an Eskimo girl, is caught between the old ways and new.
Miyax rebels and runs away, but soon finds herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness.
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Laws protecting the spotted owls in the old growth forest of northern California cost Borden's father his logging job. Angry, Borden vows to kill any spotted owl he sees, but has a change of heart when he and his father find themselves taking care of a young owlet.
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Charlie Carlisle's grandfather is ill. Charlie's friend, Singing Bird, a Teton Sioux, tells him that ravens have curing powers, so Charlie steals a baby bird from its nest. Granddad, a retired naturalist, encourages Charlie to record his observations of the bird and study the effect it has on humans. Charlie just hopes that the raven will make Granddad well.
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Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 3
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Continues the story of Julie and her wolves in which Kapu must protect his pack from famine and disease while uniting it under his new leadership.
7) Julie
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HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHING
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1994
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English
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226 PAGES ILLUS. $16.95. 93-27738. 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. LIBRI FOUNDATION. DN
8) Snow bear
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Bessie and a polar bear cub named Snow Bear play on the ice, while her older brother and the mother bear watch to make sure that everyone is safe.
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While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
Una joven esquimal se pierde en el r̀tico, gracias a su sentido comn͠ y a su valor logra sobrevivir.
11) Arctic son
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Hyperion Books for Children
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[1997]
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English
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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.
12) Galapagos George
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2014]
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English
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Briefly traces the evolution of a species of giant turtles on the Galapagos Islands from millions of years ago to the present, focusing on the last known of the species, Lonesome George.
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"Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has been enjoyed by generations of readers across the world since its publication in 1876. With its humorous glimpses into life in nineteenth-century, small-town America, this novel has provided unique social commentary that continues to be discussed in classrooms today. Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy growing up in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, is constantly getting in and out of...