Murphy, Claire Rudolf

Describes the field trip of eleven Cub Scouts from Alaska to Provideniya, a small town in the Soviet Far East.

Klondy's life changes dramatically when she and her mother move from South Dakota to Alaska in the late 1800s to live with Klondy's father, a gold miner who left when she was just a baby.

Describes the contribution of dogs to the Alaska-Yukon gold rush and profiles nine remarkable dogs from this period, discussing their work and adventures, and their relationships with their masters.

While watching her grandmother cope with the last stages of cancer, thirteen-year-old Carrie comes to know her better through letters she and her long-dead brother wrote to each other during World War II.

When the salmon stop coming to his village, a Tsimshian prince travels to the world of the Spring Salmon People and discovers the vital connection between the human and animal worlds.

Illustrated photographs and essays profile generations of children who grew up on Alcatraz Island; and contains personal stories and interviews with surviving Alcatraz kids.

In Fairbanks, Alaska, in the middle of the summer Little League baseball season, fifteen-year-old Luke is stunned when his mother confesses that she is wanted by the FBI for her role in the death of a student during an anti-Vietnam War protest thirty years ago.

Contains profiles and photographs of children who went to the Yukon and Alaska during the gold rush age of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Contains profiles and photographs of twenty-three women who sought their fortunes in the Yukon and Alaska during the gold rush age of the late ninteenth and early twentieth century.

Young readers will see images of the amazing landforms--glaciers, mountains, and sprawling tundra; glimpse the North Country's distinctive creatures--musk oxen, grizzly bears, whales; learn about other cultures--Russian, Eskimo, Athabascan, Tlingit; and relate to the stories of the lives of their young Alaskan peers in cities and in the "bush.".