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When he is kicked out of his first year of college in Anchorage, eighteen-year-old Eddie Ashford promises the university officials to work for one year at the newspaper in Kusko, Alaska, which is a small, depressing town in back-of-beyond, where it requires either a plane or a dog-sled to get around for most of the time--but staying straight is a challenge, especially when he gets caught up in the local marijuana trade.
2) Cozy
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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.
3) Crash
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When the plane carrying the Junior Action News Team crash lands in Alaska, the group must try to stay alive in the wilderness.
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"Luke knows his Iñupiaq name is full of sounds white people can't say. So he leaves it behind when he and his brothers are sent to boarding school hundreds of miles away from their Arctic village. At Sacred Heart School, students--Eskimo, Indian, White--line up on different sides of the cafeteria like there's some kind of war going on. Here, speaking Iñupiaq--or any native language--is forbidden. And Father Mullen, whose fury is like a force of...
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Six years ago Maddie lived in Washington D.C. with her father, a Secret Service agent assigned to the President's family, and her best friend was Logan, the President's son; but after her father was wounded in an attempted kidnapping the two of them moved to a remote cabin in Alaska and Logan never replied to her letters--but now he has suddenly turned up on her doorstep, and, while she has no attention of forgiving him for his silence, she soon realizes...
8) Cozy in love
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"When Cozy the musk ox has a clever idea for how to save a trapped friend, his brave efforts help win the heart of the one he admires most"--
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In Paul Greci's Hostile Territory, a catastrophic earthquake strands four teens in the Alaskan wilderness-and leaves them without a civilization to return to.
Josh and three other campers at Simon Lake are high up on a mountain when an earthquake hits. The rest of the camp is wiped out in a moment-leaving Josh, Derrick, Brooke, and Shannon alone, hundreds of miles from the nearest town, with meager supplies, surrounded by dangerous Alaskan wildlife.
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In 1934, eleven-year-old Terpsichore's father signs up for President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project, uprooting the family from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska, where Terpsichore refuses to let rough conditions and first impressions get in the way of her grand adventure.
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After his anger erupts into violence, fifteen year-old Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
13) The wild lands
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After the government collapses and fires burn the wilderness, Travis and his younger sister, Jess, must travel hundreds of miles searching for some type of civilization.
Natural disasters and a breakdown of civilization have cut off Alaska from the world and destroyed its landscape. Food is running out and the few who remain turn on each other. As Travis and his younger sister, Jess, cross hundreds of miles in search of civilization, the wild lands...
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"Ben Ripley and his friends are training in Alaska when Cyrus Hale is kidnapped by his old Russian nemesis. Ben, Erica, and the others mount a rescue mission, but events quickly spiral out of control in a plot involving the secret history of US-Russian relations, a young KGB agent with skills to rival Erica's--and lots and lots of bears" --
15) White Fang
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From the Publisher: In the frozen North during the Gold Rush days, marauding canines hunt in packs and search for their next victim. Sadistic dog trainers are looking for easy money. And the unconquerable spirit of a vicious wolf roams free until he receives a human being's love and understanding. All these come together in White Fang, Jack London's classic sequel to The Call of the Wild. Weaving adventure, bravery, greed, survival of the fittest,...
16) Mayday!
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You are the copilot along with your cousin, Eddie, on a small Polaris 180 airplane. Through bad weather and mechanical difficulties, you and Eddie fly supplies to people who live in remote areas all over Alaska. Things start to go wrong when Eddie is knocked unconscious and you have to fly the plane all by yourself.
17) Woodsong
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For a rugged outdoor man and his family, life in northern Minnesota is a wild experience involving wolves, deer, and the sled dogs that make their way of life possible. Includes an account of the author's first Iditarod, a dogsled race across Alaska.
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