Search Results: Returned 12 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 12
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2009., Pre-adolescent, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: Historical fiction FIC EDWARDSON Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1917, Aaluk leaves for Siberia while her sister Nutaaq remains in their Alaskan village and becomes one of the few survivors of an influenza epidemic, then in 1986, Nunaaq's great-granddaughter leaves her mother due to a different kind of sickness and returns to the village where they were born.
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2014., Henry Holt and Company Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Bo Volume: 2Summary Note: In 1920s Alaska, when five-year-old Bo and her two adoptive fathers move to Iditarod Creek to work at a new gold mine, Bo feels homesick until she realizes there is friendship to be found everywhere--and Iditarod Creek may hold some surprises for her already unconventional family.
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2011., Pre-adolescent, Square Fish Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st Square Fish ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: A collection of diamond-shaped poems tell the story of twelve-year-old Willow who lives in a rugged town in Alaska and likes to be alone with her dogs. She wants to take her dog sled out alone to her grandparents' house but when something happens, she discovers she needs her friends after all.
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c2007., Pre-adolescent, Margaret K. McElderry Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Deet's father is jailed for using drugs, Deet learns that prison is not what he expected, nor are other people necessarily the way he thought they were.
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c2007, Pre-adolescent, Margaret K. McElderry Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Deet's father is jailed for using drugs, Deet learns that prison is not what he expected, nor are other people necessarily the way he thought they were.
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2018., St. Martin's Press Call No: Realistic FIC Hannah Edition: First U.S. edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Ernt Allbright, a former POW, returns from the Vietnam War and moves his family, which includes his wife Cora and thirteen-year-old daughter Leni, to Alaska to live off the grid in the harsh wilderness. Things go well at first, but as the darkening winter approaches and their resources dwindle, Ernt's mental state deteriorates. Cora and Leni face the truth that they are on their own if they want to survive.
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2018., St. Martin's Press Call No: YOUNG ADULT Edition: 1st U.S. ed.: February 2018. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America's last true frontier. At first, Alaska seems to be the answer to their prayers. But as winter approaches and darkness descends on Alaska, Ernt's fragile mental state deteriorates and the family begins to fracture. In their small cabin, covered in snow, blanketed in eighteen hours of night ... there is no one to save them but themselves."--Provided by publisher.
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By Giles, Gail2007., Adolescent, Little, Brown Call No: Adventure FIC Giles Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Adventure Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Publisher Description Summary Note: After spending over four years in a mental institution for murdering a boy in Alaska, fourteen-year-old Kip begins a completely new life in Indiana with his father and stepmother under a different name. He has trouble fitting in and finds there are still problems to deal with from his childhood.
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[2016], Adolescent, Wendy Lamb Books Call No: NL HISTORICAL F HIT Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Ruth, grieving her father's death, is pregnant and sent to a convent to await the baby's birth. Dora's abusive father is finally behind bars, but she feels she'll never truly be free from him. Alyce earns a dance scholarship, but struggles with the guilt of adandoning her father. And Hank, on the run with his two younger brothers, finds keeping them safe is harder outside their unhealthy home than he imagined. As each of these Alaskan teens trudge through their personal struggles, their lives become unexpectedly intertwined.
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[2016]., Nancy Paulsen Books Call No: Historical[Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1934, eleven-year-old Terpsichore's father signs up for President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project, uprooting the family from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska, where Terpsichore refuses to let rough conditions and first impressions get in the way of her grand adventure.
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c2005, Adolescent, Wendy Lamb Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After her boyfriend is killed in a hunting accident, Alaska high-school-senior Marty, with help from her mother and two younger sisters, tries to get over her grief and begin a new life.
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c2005., Wendy Lamb Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After her boyfriend is killed in a hunting accident, Alaska high-school-senior Marty, with help from her mother and two younger sisters, tries to get over her grief and begin a new life.