In 1946, while her emotionally distant father is in occupied Japan, a twelve-year-old girl spends a year with her mother's relatives in a Tlingit Indian village in Alaska and begins to love and respect her heritage as she confronts the secret of her mother's disappearance.
Presents a photographic introduction to the history, geography, government, and people of Alaska, and includes a look at the state flag and other symbols, a regional recipe, a list of notable Alaskans, photographs, and a glossary.
Dana, a girl whose family runs an animal rescue mission at Parsons Point, has long been at odds with the Mote twins, whose father is a commercial fishermen, but the families join together to fight a common enemy when a huge oil spill threatens the Alaskan coast.
When college freshman Laurel Adams joins a summer research project, she and her fellow researchers investigate the poaching of Alaskan brown bears and find their lives in jeopardy.
Seventeen-year-old Annie's week in Alaska at her father's company's camp stretches her mental and physical limits as she must deal with hostile Russians and survival in the wilderness.
Following his suicide attempt, a loner and a loser who has never lived up to his father's expectations is sent to Alaska, where he subsequently enters the annual thousand-mile-long Iditarod Trail Race from Anchorage to Nome in memory of his Athabascan Indian friend who dies.
Presents volume eight of an eight-volume collection on regional cultures of America and examines the traditions and history of the Pacific states through narratives on Native Americans, westward expansion, music, fashion, and tourism, and other areas that define the Pacific states.
Aleutian private detective Kate Shugak joins Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin in investigating two brutal attacks against residents of Niniltna Park in southeast Alaska which occurred in the midst of controversy over proposed oil drilling in a nearby wildlife preserve.
