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Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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"In 1921, Inupait seamstress Ada Blackjack joined a a group of four white men who wanted to establish a trading post on Wrangel Island in the freezing Arctic Ocean. The explorers were stranded on the island when their return ship was forced to turn back due to ice. Facing harsh conditions and dwindling food supplies, the men died one by one, but Ada remained. Find out how she alone managed to survive the disastrous expedition"--
2) Fatty Legs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When Margaret Pokiak was very young, she traveled with her father from her home in the High Arctic to Aklavik. The Inuit girl was mesmerized by what she saw there- strange dark-cloaked nuns and pale-skinned priests who had journeyed fro far-off lands. This is a powerful and moving autobiographical account, set in the 1940s, of one headstrong girl from an Inuvialuit community in the Arctic Circle. Margaret desperately wished to attend one of the...
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