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By Shields, Amy[2013], Juvenile, National Geographic Society Call No: 591.5 SHIELDS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: National Geographic kids.Summary Note: Spotlights unusual examples of animals from different species who have developed special connections to one another.
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2017., Juvenile, Henry Holt and Company Call No: JNF007030 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A middle grade biography of Jack London that sheds light on how he drew upon adventure and life experience to create works of literature"--
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2016., Adolescent, Chicago Review Press Call No: Biography NF CAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Women of action (Chicago, Ill.)Summary Note: "In 1921, four men ventured into the Arctic for a top-secret expedition: an attempt to claim uninhabited Wrangel Island in northern Siberia for Canada. With the men was a young Inuit woman named Ada Blackjack, who had signed on as cook and seamstress to earn money to care for her sick son. Conditions soon turned dire for the team when they were unable to kill enough game to survive. Three of the men tried to cross the frozen Chukchi Sea for help but were never seen again, leaving Ada with one remaining team member who soon died of scurvy. Determined to be reunited with her son, Ada learned to survive alone in the icy world by trapping foxes, catching seals, and avoiding polar bears. After she was finally rescued in August 1923, after two years total on the island, Ada became a celebrity, with newspapers calling her a real "female Robinson Crusoe.""--Provided by publisher.
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[2013]., Juvenile, Grosset & Dunlap Call No: B Wil Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: "Born in 1867 in the "Big Woods" in Wisconsin, Laura experienced both the hardship and the adventure of living on the frontier. It wasn't until after she was sixty that Laura Ingalls Wilder started chronicling those times, which resulted in nine Little House books, a hit TV series that ran for eight years, and her own permanent place as a heroine of the American West"--
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-- Laura Ingalls Wilder2013, Pre-adolescent, Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC Call No: JNF007020 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Who was-- ?Summary Note: Chronicles the life and career of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author of the Little House on the Prairie books, which she based on her own experiences while growing up on the wild frontier.
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-- Laura Ingalls Wilder[2013]., Pre-adolescent, Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC Call No: Biography WILDER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Who was-- ?Summary Note: Chronicles the life and career of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author of the Little House on the Prairie books, which she based on her own experiences while growing up on the wild frontier.