alaska

Discusses daily life in the Alaska Territory in the early 1900s, especially for Inuit peoples.

In Anchorage, Alaska, two lonely boys make a connection--a brown bear injured just after his mother sends him out on his own, and a human whose father is a new keeper at the Alaska Zoo and whose mother and sister are still in Minnesota.

Traces the friendship between a boy and a bear in the rugged Alaskan Territory.

When Maria meets the new boy at her high school, Tom Stone, the two feel a connection, but Maria finds it hard to get to know Tom, the son of Persephone Falls, Alaska's new funeral director. After learning that Tom is not Franklin Stone's real son and that the family is into recycling in a new way, Maria finds herself having to fight to keep her new boyfriend.

An adaptation of Jack London's novel in which the dog hero, Buck, is stolen from his home and pressed into service as a sled dog in the Klondike.

Examines territorial expansion in the years following the Civil War and discusses the people and land of Alaska and its purchase from Russia in 1868, the 1896 Klondike Gold Rush, strategic military importance to the U.S., and statehood in 1959.

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.

Examines the life and career of William Seward, focusing on his service to the United States as a governor, senator, and advisor and friend to President Lincoln.

A journal of the author's observations and adventures while working on a research vessel counting seabirds through Alaska's Aleutian Island chain.