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"This modern retelling of a traditional Dena'ina story is about Chia, a young boy with a hard life, and his encounter with the legendary Fox Man, who just may be able to help. Through the Fox Man, Chia learns that there is strength in humility and in doing what is right, especially when it's hard"--Provided by publisher.

Readers learn about Denali, the tallest mountain in North America.

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.

This photo book with text is written from a child's perspective on what Alaskan kids do during recess at 20 below.

The coat of a huge wooly musk ox named Cozy is the winter home for a growing number of Alaskan animals who mostly get along.

When eleven-year-old Matt must set up a business to save his failing math grade, he overcomes his self-doubt and also gains two friends along the way.

"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.