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1) Julie
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English
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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.
2) Ice whale
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In 1848, ten-year-old Toozak, a Yupik Eskimo, sees a whale being born and is told by a shaman that he and his descendants must protect that whale, which Toozak names Siku, as long as it lives.
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34 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
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Español
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En Nunutuk todo es nieve, frío, blancura infinita. Pero el pequeño Ukluk sabe que esto va a cambiar. El mundo se derrite, y solo Ukluk sabe por qué. La vuelta al mundo es una colección inspirada en culturas ancestrales del planeta. En cada una predomina un paisaje -hielo, río, bosque, mar, montaña-, pero todas comparten valores tan antiguos como la humanidad misma: el amor por la tierra que nutre y sostiene, el respeto por sus habitantes, la...
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126 pages : color illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
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English
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In the time of the Vikings, when four friends journey from their Inuit settlement near the Arctic Circle to Helluland (modern Baffin Island) with two dogsled teams, their adventure is disrupted by a terrible blizzard and a shocking kidnapping.
7) The raiders
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Inuk quartet volume 2
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127 pages : color illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
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English
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When Apuluk and Narua decide to leave Thorstein's farm and return home Leiv, their good friend, joins them on their journey but when they learn that Grimur and Rane are destroying entire Inuit villages, the boys help form a raiding party determined to kill the fierce Viking brothers.
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111 pages : color illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
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English
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Shipwrecked off the coast of Greenland, Leiv Steinursson, a young Viking boy, is helped by two Inuit children, twelve-year-old Apuluk and his eleven-year-old sister Narua, and is accepted into their community, gladly leaving his violent lifestyle behind.
9) Immi's gift
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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Day after day in the frozen north, a young Inuit girl catches brightly-colored objects while ice fishing and uses them to decorate her igloo, until the ice begins to melt and she drops in a gift of her own before leaving for the season.
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"Nadia Sammurtok lovingly invites the reader into the amautik--the pouch in the back of a mother's parka used to carry a child--to experience everything through the eyes of the baby nestled inside, from the cloudlike softness of the pouch to the glistening sound of Anaana's laughter."--
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248 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"Luke knows his Iñupiaq name is full of sounds white people can't say. So he leaves it behind when he and his brothers are sent to boarding school hundreds of miles away from their Arctic village. At Sacred Heart School, students -- Eskimo, Indian, White -- line up on different sides of the cafeteria like there's some kind of war going on. Here, speaking Iñupiaq -- or any native language -- is forbidden. And Father Mullen, whose fury is like a force...
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