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1) Mammoth
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Stumbling upon a perfectly frozen woolly mammoth in the northern wilds of Canada, a mammoth hunter is stunned when he also finds the mummified body of a Stone Age man, dating from around 12,000 years ago, wearing a modern-day wristwatch.
2) Split tooth
Author
Publisher
Penguin Canada
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
193 pages : illustrations
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before, a fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything you've ever read. Fact can be as strange as fiction. It can also be as dark, as violent, as rapturous. In the end, there may be no difference between them. A girl grows up in Nunavut in the 1970s. She knows joy, and friendship, and parents' love. She knows boredom,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Pirio Kasparov is a Boston-bred tough-talking girl with an acerbic wit and a moral compass that points due north. When the fishing boat Pirio is on is rammed by a freighter, she finds herself abandoned in the North Atlantic. Somehow, she survives nearly four hours in the water before being rescued by the Coast Guard. But the boat's owner and her professional fisherman friend, Ned, is not so lucky. Pirio can't shake the lurking suspicion that Ned's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
©2004
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Many lives ago, a young girl in what would become the Nunavut territory of Canada builds stone men, called Inuksuk, to direct her father and brother home when they are lost in a storm while hunting caribou.
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Martha Baillie's hypnotic novel follows Heinrich Schlögel from Germany to Canada, where he sets out on a two-week hike into the isolated interior of Baffin Island. His journey quickly becomes surreal; he experiences strange encounters and inexplicable visions as shards of Arctic history emerge from the shifting landscape. When he returns from his hike, he discovers that, though he has not aged, thirty years have passed. Narrated by an unnamed archivist...
7) Lena & Ruby
Author
Publisher
Nunavummi
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
35 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lena and Ruby are best friends. They love to have sleepovers, bake cookies, and make up dance routines. They are also both adopted. Learn about how the two girls met as they talk about their own unique adoption experiences, including Inuit custom adoption."--
Author
Publisher
Inhabit Media Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
33 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A picture book about family and community that includes the Inuktitut terms for some common words and phrases.
Ukpik loves living in her camp in the North with her family. When a captain from the south arrives to trade with Ukpik's father, Ukpik is excited to learn how to use the forks, knives, and spoons he brings with him. At first, Ukpik enjoys teaching the other children how to use thses new tools. But soon, she starts to wonder if they'll need...
9) North
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Tired of his mother's overprotectiveness and intrigued by the life of African American explorer Matthew Henson, twelve-year-old Alvin travels north and spends a season with a trapper near the Arctic Circle.
Author
Publisher
Inhabit Media Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
30 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Akuluk is not excited about visiting her grandparents in Nunavut. She would rather head south for summer vacation, somewhere with roller coasters and cotton candy. There can't be much to do way up there, Akuluk figures. But as soon as she steps off the plane and sees all the exciting animals that the tundra has to offer, Akuluk forgets all about her dreams of going south. On her first full day in Nunavut, she can't wait to travel out on the land with...
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