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381) La daga
Author
Series
La Materia Oscura volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 16
Description
As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife.
"Lyra llega a una misteriosa ciudad donde conoce a un enigmático muchacho: un asesino. Los destinos de ambos jóvenes están extrañamente enlazados, y juntos deben encontrar un objecto poderoso y secreto, por el cual gentes de muchos mundos estarían incluso dispuestas a matar"--p. [4] of cover....
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
Rae (1813-93) was the only major British Arctic explorer never to receive a knighthood. His error, says Calgary-based novelist McGoogan, was that when he returned to London in the middle 1850s, from his explorations across what would become northern Canada, he brought tragic news of the long-lost expedition led by Sir John Franklin and so brought on his head the vilification of such powers as Lady Franklin and Charles Dickens.
383) Arctic shadow
Author
Series
Watch eyes trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
After a sled dog is killed in 1909 Alaska, fourteen-year-old Anya, a Chukchi shaman, and seventeen-year-old Rune must battle dark spirits born of inhuman evil.
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Description
This historical novel revolves around three of Robert Peary's and Frederick Cook's real-life expeditions to the Arctic. It is told through the voice of Devlin Stead, a fictional young orphan raised by his aunt and uncle in St. John's, Newfoundland, after his father abandoned him and went to Labrador to minister to the Inuit and his mother committed suicide. Eventually, Devlin sailed from St. John's to New York to become the protégé of Cook and accompanied...
386) Arctic will
Author
Series
Watch eyes trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
As the 1910 Alaska sled dog race approaches, Anya and Rune must prevail over dark spirits bent on killng every Chukchi dog on Native Earth.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"In Victorian London, when she discovers her sister's death aboard the Makepeace was no accident and that the ship's scientist Edison Stowe was responsible, Maude Horton, to find the truth, begins shadowing Edison, enacting the ultimate revenge to get justice for her sister"--
389) Finding Bear
Author
Series
Last bear volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
"April Wood has returned home from her adventure on Bear Island. But even though it's been a whole year, she can't stop thinking about Bear. When April hears that a polar bear has been shot and injured in Svalbard, she's convinced it's her friend and persuades her dad to travel with her to the northernmost reaches of the Arctic. So begins an unforgettable journey across frozen tundra and icy glaciers. But along the way, she discovers much more than...
390) Smiler's bones
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In 1897, Robert Peary took six Eskimos from their homes and "presented" them to the American Museum of Natural History in New York as a living exhibit. Two of them were father and son: Qisuk ("Smiler") and Minik. This is Minik's story.
Author
Series
Covert-One series volume 7
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
A Covert-One team led by Lieutenant Colonel Jon Smith is dispatched to a site in the Canadian arctic where a Soviet bomber crashed more than fifty years ago, but they must deal with a vicious arms dealer who got there first as well as a weapon more deadly than the anthrax admittedly on board.
Author
Pub. Date
p2008
Description
NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children try prove the connection between the discovery to reverse global warming and unexplained deaths in British Columbia and a rash of international incidents between the United States and its closests allies, before it escalates out of control.
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Includes all three seasons of the HBO show based on the fantasy novels by Philip Pullman consisting of Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass. It follows the coming of age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of parallel universes.
399) Arctic tale
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
A walrus pup and a polar bear cub face the challenges of growing up in the Arctic armed with their natural instincts and mothers' guidance.
400) Northwest passage
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Sought by explorers for centuries and hailed as the one of the most beautiful waterways in the world, The Northwest Passage tells a dramatic story of courage, discovery and adventure. From the breath-taking landscapes of the Arctic to the unforgettable exporters that risked everything to accomplish the un-thinkable, this 6-Part documentary highlights the missions and mysteries of the world s greatest waterway. Through in-depth interviews with experts...