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1) Icebound
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
An experiment turns dangerous when a team of scientists becomes trapped on an Arctic icefield where sixty powerful explosives, all set to detonate at midnight, are planted.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
White House intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton is thrust into a life-or-death situation when she travels to the Arctic to investigate the discovery of a rare meteorite that might prove the existence of extraterrestrial life, and finds instead evidence of scientific trickery.
4) Arctic Drift
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Oceanographer Dirk Pitt traces a lost ship's mysterious cargo to a scientific discovery that could reverse the dangers of climate change in this novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling action adventure series.
When an act of sabotage aims to slow down a technological breakthrough in American clean energy, it puts the United States on the brink of war with one of its closest allies. Tension boils on the homefront, too, as gas prices...
When an act of sabotage aims to slow down a technological breakthrough in American clean energy, it puts the United States on the brink of war with one of its closest allies. Tension boils on the homefront, too, as gas prices...
5) Arctic son
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c1997
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A baby boy is given an Inupiat name to go with his English one and grows up learning the traditional ways of the Eskimo people living in the Arctic.
6) Revolver
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
204 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Sig is stranded at a remote cabin in the Arctic wilderness with his father, who died just hours earlier after falling through the ice, when a terrifying man arrives, claiming Sig's father owes him a share of a horde of stolen gold and that he will kill Sig if he does not get his money.
7) The sea-wolf
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack London's 1904 novel "The Sea Wolf" is the story of Humphrey van Weyden, an effete gentleman, who finds himself shipwrecked when the San Francisco ferry his is aboard collides with another ship in the fog. Adrift in the bay, Humphrey is rescued by Wolf Larsen, the brutish captain of a seal-hunting schooner, the "Ghost". However, his relief in being saved is short-lived, for he is soon put to work, essentially enslaved as a cabin boy forced to...
9) Frost bites
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Aladdin ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
168 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twins Edgar and Ellen encounter unexpected dangers that force them to split up in order to search for their arch-rival, who has discovered the secret of eternal life.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books, LLC
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[26] p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
An Inuit child learns that her mother's love is unconditional when she disobeys and journeys across the Arctic, from village to ice floe, in search of her puppy.
11) Polar vortex
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A routine commercial flight disappears over the North Pole. No wreckage. No transponder signals. Mitch Matthews is writer struggling to make ends meet when his wife's brother offers them a first-class seat on a flight from Hong Kong to New York. When his wife needs to stay behind, it becomes an opportunity for some quality daddy-daughter time with his five-year-old Lilly. At check-in, they run into a strange Norwegian arguing with a huge Russian....
12) Arctic adventure
Author
Series
Robot racers volume 3
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
159 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
For the third leg of the robot races the contestants must choose between three possible Arctic routes, all of which are dangerous--especially when some of the racers are not playing by the rules.
13) The fire eternal
Author
Series
Last dragon chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Edition
1st Scholastic ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
506 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the weather grows wilder and the ice caps melt, Arctic bears starve, dragons awake, the earth goddess Gaia becomes restless, and Alexa, the daughter of best-selling author David Rain, uses her special abilities in an attempt to save the world from the forces of evil.
14) Ice whale
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1848, ten-year-old Toozak, a Yupik Eskimo, sees a whale being born and is told by a shaman that he and his descendants must protect that whale, which Toozak names Siku, as long as it lives.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to the Arctic, where a polar bear leads them onto very thin ice.
Author
Series
Jeremy Logan novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A group of scientists sponsored by a major media conglomerate are sent on an expedition to Alaska's Federal Wilderness Zone, one of the most remote places on Earth. When the group makes an astonishing find, an ancient animal encased in solid ice that appears to a giant cat, the parent company quickly plans the ultimate spectacle - the animal will be cut from the ice, thawed, and revealed on live television. Ignoring the dire warnings of a local Eskimo...
Author
Language
English
Description
The year is 1845 and young researcher Eliot Saxby is paid to go on an expedition to the Arctic in the hope of finding remains of the by now extinct Great Auk. He joins a hunting ship, but the crew and the passengers are not what they seem. Caught in the web of relationships on board, Eliot struggles to understand the motivations of the sociopathic Captain Sykes; the silent first mate, French; the flamboyant laudanum-addicted Bletchley; and most importantly...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
Young Anja, whose greatest dream is to be one of Santa's elves, makes friends with the animals that guide her on the journey from her home in the far North to meet Santa.
Author
Series
Oona volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A mermaid and her otter friend go on a journey to help a lost beluga whale return to the Arctic"--
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