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Author
Series
His dark materials volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North. In this first book of a fantasy trilogy, young Lyre & her alter ego, a protective animal named Pantalaimon, escape from the child-stealing Gobblers & join a group heading north to rescue a band of missing children. In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman...
4) 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.
6) Neversink
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Barry Wolverton's masterful middle-grade debut, Neversink, is an epic tale of some very un-epic birds, a fast-paced and funny story of survival, friendship, and fish, in the vein of Watership Down and Kathi Appelt's The Underneath. Along the Arctic Circle lies a small island called Neversink, home to a colony of odd-looking seabirds called auks, including one Lockley J. Puffin. With their oceanfront views and plentiful supply of fish, the auks have...
8) Icefire
Author
Series
Last dragon chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
While researching the existence of dragons for an essay that could win him a trip to the Arctic, Chris opens himself to the possibility that a great, ancient treasure exists there, guarded by bears, and that he has some role in its protection.
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.
10) 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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
265 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
As Duane, a polar bear, explores his new home he makes friends with the wide variety of creatures he encounters, despite their varied personalities.
12) Ice whale
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
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.
13) Horizon
Author
Series
Horizon (Scholastic) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Aero Horizon 16 crashes in the Arctic, eight children emerge from the wreckage to find themselves alone and surrounded, not by ice, but by a mysterious and deadly jungle full of carnivorous plants and predatory birds--the other five hundred people from the plane are gone, not necessarily dead, but taken by something that lives in the jungle.
Author
Series
His dark materials volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a time before Lyra Silvertongue was born, the tough American balloonist Lee Scoresby and the great armored bear Iorek Byrnison meet when Lee and his hare daemon Hester crash-land their trading balloon onto a port in the far Arctic North and find themselves in the middle of a political powder keg.
15) 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.
16) The last bear
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"There are no polar bears left on Bear Island. At least, that's what April's father tells her when his scientific research takes them to a faraway Arctic outpost for six months. But one night, April catches a glimpse of something distinctly bear shaped loping across the horizon. A polar bear who shouldn't be there--who is hungry, lonely, and a long way from home. As their unlikely bond grows, April is determined to save her new friend--and so begins...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rollo the troll is tired of chores, but after spending time on the tundra with various animal families, from owls to moose, he realizes that he wants to be home for Christmas even if that means behaving himself.
18) Poe and Lars
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A resourceful little girl named Poe and a grumpy polar bear named Ig live alone in the Arctic, and after an unsuccessful attempt by Lars to eat Poe they come to an uneasy truce that might lead to friendship. Includes information on the Arctic and climate change as well as polar bears.
19) The Snow Queen
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story that was the inspiration for The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis and more recently, Frozen by Disney is re-designed in celebration of 50 years of working with Bernadette Watts--one of Europe's most recognized and beloved fairy-tale artists, known in Europe simply as Bernadette. When a young boy is cursed and unable to detect goodness, a young girl goes on a courageous journey to restore his heart and free him from the palace...
20) Finding Bear
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"While journeying to the northernmost reaches of the Arctic, April Wood discovers a tiny polar bear cub in desperate need of her help, and in freezing temperatures and on dangerous terrain, she must face her deepest fears to save him"--
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