Smelcer, John E.

Four Indian teenagers are kidnapped from different regions, their lives changed by an institution designed to eradicate their identity, and without family to protect them, only their friendship helps them endure.

In the summer of 1980, brothers Sebastian and James Savage decide to climb one of Alaska's highest mountains to prove themselves to their father but, instead, through testing their limits, learn that no matter how different they may be, the strongest bond of all is brotherhood. Includes discussion questions.

After Seth and his dog are washed overboard from his father's fishing boat during a storm, they wash up on the Alaskan coast and try to survive in the wild while they make their way towards home.

As their Alaskan village's only survivors of sickness brought by white men one winter early in the twentieth century, sisters Millie, aged thirteen, and Maura, ten, make their way south in hopes of finding someone alive.

In alternating chapters, seventeen-year-old Johnny Least-Weasel, who is better known for brains than brawn, worries about his missing grandfather, and the grandfather, Albert Least-Weasel, struggles to survive, caught in his own steel trap in the Alaskan winter.

In alternating chapters, seventeen-year-old Johnny Least-Weasel, who is better known for brains than brawn, worries about his missing grandfather, and the grandfather, Albert Least-Weasel, struggles to survive, caught in his own steel trap in the Alaskan winter.