alaska

"Sixteen-year-old Emily and her little brother Aidan are on board a plane bound for Anchorage. When the plane crashes, both kids and the pilot barely escape with their lives and are left to fight for survival in the Alaskan wilderness. But there is worse to come -- Emily and Aidan are being chased, and their shady, unknown pursuers are closing in. As the kids go on the run, Emily finds herself in greater danger than she could have imagined. Because nothing in her life is what it seems -- not even the things she holds dearest of all"--Provided by publisher.

"Sixteen-year-old Emily and her little brother Aidan are on board a plane bound for Anchorage. When the plane crashes, both kids and the pilot barely escape with their lives and are left to fight for survival in the Alaskan wilderness. But there is worse to come -- Emily and Aidan are being chased, and their shady, unknown pursuers are closing in. As the kids go on the run, Emily finds herself in greater danger than she could have imagined. Because nothing in her life is what it seems -- not even the things she holds dearest of all"--Provided by publisher.

Nita Dara is one of ten eighth graders who has already won a scholarship to attend the Alaska Young Explorers program and learn explorer skills in an Alaskan wilderness camp; but the program is also a competition and the winner will get 5000 dollars--money that Nita's family could really use--but on the final challenge she is paired with the super-competitive Sohail Aman, and the challenge turns deadly when they find themselves lost in the fog while hiking down a glacier, where a single misstep could mean injury and death.

"After the government collapses and fires burn the wilderness, Travis and his younger sister, Jess, must must travel hundreds of miles searching for some type of civilization"--OCLC.

"Tells the story of the author's hunger for remote, wild places, which take her across America and then to Alaska, where she finds her true home in its vast and rugged landscape. She and her husband build a log cabin miles from the nearest road; after tragic loss, Keith and her infant daughter must push on alone in the Alaskan backcountry. Long-distance dog sledding opens a door to a new existence . . . offers the best of all worlds by combining raw wildnerness with solitude and athleticism"--Publisher.

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.

Discusses how kids who live and go to school in Alaska spend their recess when it is twenty below zero, with photographs.

Thirteen-year-old Tatum's dream of competing in the grueling 1,049-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race may be at an end when she becomes lost in a freak snowstorm during a training run on Alaska's remote Santa Ysabel Island.

Collects "The Call of the Wild, " in which a dog in the Klondike reverts to wilderness life and becomes the leader of a pack of wolves; and "White Fang, " in which a wolf-dog trained to be a vicious fighter struggles to live in both the world of dogs and that of the humans, who show him love.