alaska

Describes a river in Alaska and the life that it supports, emphasizing how the living things around it are connected and dependent upon it for their survival.

After two weeks on the trail and traveling over 1,000 miles, Susan Butcher nears Nome and the end of the Iditarod. Has she won again?.

A young boy describes his summers spent fishing for salmon with his parents and younger brother off the southeastern coast of Alaska.

Raven gives the sun, the moon, and the stars to the people of the world by tricking the great chief who is hoarding them in three boxes.

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.

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.

Relates five true stories of animals who have contributed to the history of Alaska, including dogs, mules, and reindeer.

In a remote area of Alaska, twelve-year-old Willow helps her father with their sled dogs when she is not at school, wishing she were more popular, all the while unaware that the animals surrounding her carry the spirits of dead ancestors and friends who care for her.

Pam Flowers tells the story of how, at the age of thirty-five, she decided to pursue a dream and moved from Texas to Alaska where she learned to become a dog musher and eventually became the first female and first American to travel solo across the entire length of the North American Arctic coast by dog team.

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.