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26) Smiler's bones
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
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.
28) Dreamstones
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Description
A captain's son becomes separated from his icebound ship, and in doing so, becomes part of the mystique surrounding the striking stone figures the Inuit call Inukshuks.
29) Arctic son
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
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.
32) Tiktala
Author
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
When the spirit guide changes her into a seal, Tiktala learns the ways of seals and how harmful humans can be.
34) Whale brother
Author
Pub. Date
1988.
Description
Omu longs to find the magic he needs to create great whalebone carvings and inspired music on his harmonica, but he does not discover the inspiration until he stands watch beside a dying killer whale.
37) Go home, river
Author
Pub. Date
1996.
Description
In 1875, a young Inupiat boy travels the length of the Kobuk River with his family, from its source in the mountains of northern Alaska to Kotzebue Sound, where they join others for an annual trade fair.
40) Runaway mittens
Author
Pub. Date
c1988
Description
Pica's mittens are always turning up in strange places, but when he finds them keeping the newborn puppies warm in their box, he decides to leave them where they are until spring.