Geographic Orientation/Alaska
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Stickeen: John Muir and the Brave Little Dog
$8.99 Add to cartMeet John Muir’s trusty dog Stickeen in this classic, true story from the intrepid explorer himself, reimagined as a kids book. Vivid illustrations and beautiful writing combine in a captivating tale
- Author: Muir, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1883220785
- Language: English
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The Mystery on Alaska’s Iditarod Trail
$7.99 Read moreFour real kids head north to Alaska just in time for the Iditarod Trail dogsled race and find themselves in the cold about a mystery that takes digging through Gold Rush history to solve Renaissance
- Series: Real Kids! Real Places! (Paperback) #08
- Author: Marsh, Carole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 145
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0635016680
- Language: English
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Diamond Willow
$9.99 Add to cartThere’s
Twelve-year-old Willow would rather blend in than stick out. But she still wants to be seen for who she is. She wants her parents to notice that she is growing up
more to me than
most people
see.- Author: Frost, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 10 2011
- ISBN10: 0312603835
- Language: English
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Douggie: The Playful Pup Who Became a Sled Dog Hero
$12.99 Add to cartFrom the beginning one puppy was different from the rest. He was big and black, his brother and sisters small and gray. While the others lay quietly snuggled against their mother, this puppy squirmed
- Author: Flowers, Pam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0882406558
- Language: English
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The War Canoe
$12.99 Add to cart17 year-old Mickey Church, a Tlingit Indian didn’t see anything special about his hometown. Perched on an island in Southeast Alaska, the small town of Wrangell was shabby, wet, and isolated. Mickey s… [more below]
- Author: Bryson, Jamie S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0882407589
- Language: English
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Pedro’s Pan: A Gold Rush Story
$22.99 Add to cartDiscover the whimsical tale of friendship between one man and his gold pan, and their journey in the wake of the Gold Rush.
“A plucky pan is a prospector’s devoted companion as they venture through th
- Author: Lasley, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1513141406
- Language: English
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Gentle Ben
$8.99 Read moreThe Alaskan wilderness is a lonely place for Mark Andersen, especially after the death of his brother. But Mark finds a friend named Ben, who happens to be an Alaskan brown bear. Ben and Mark form a s… [more below]
- Series: Puffin Modern Classics
- Author: Morey, Walt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0142405515
- Language: English
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Strangers on a Train
$18.99 Add to cartNancy and her friends take their detective skills on an Alaskan adventure in this second book of the Nancy Drew Diaries, a fresh approach to a classic series.
Nancy’s Alaskan adventure continues as sh- Series: Nancy Drew Diaries #2
- Author: Keene, Carolyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1442466111
- Language: English
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Gentle Ben
$7.99 Read moreThe Alaskan wilderness is a lonely place for Mark Andersen, especially after the death of his older brother, Jamie. But in time Mark finds someone else to love–Ben, an Alaskan brown bear so huge that
- Author: Morey, Walt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0140360352
- Language: English
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Akiak: A Tale from the Iditarod
$8.99 Read moreWhen she hurts her paw on the fourth day of the race, Akiak can no longer compete in the Iditarod–the famed dogsledding race through 1,151 miles of Alaskan terrain. Her musher has no choice but to le… [more below]
- Author: Blake, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 21 2004
- ISBN10: 0142401854
- Language: English
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Good Time Girls of the Pacific Northwest: A Red-Light History of Washington, Oregon, and Alaska
$19.95 Add to cartAs more and more pioneers braved the harsh, unforgiving conditions of moving West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Pacific N… [more below]
- Author: Collins, Jan Mackell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1493038095
- Language: English
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Last Letters from Attu: The True Story of Etta Jones, Alaska Pioneer and Japanese POW
$18.99 Add to cartEtta Jones was not a World War II soldier or a war time spy. She was a school teacher whose life changed forever on that Sunday morning in June 1942 when the Japanese military invaded Attu Island an
- Author: Breu, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0882408100
- Language: English
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Farallon: Shipwreck and Survival on the Alaska Shore
$18.95 Read moreOn a snowy morning in January 1910, the Alaska Steamship Company liner Farallon ran aground on Black Reef in lower Cook Inlet, Alaska. Thirty-eight men escaped in the ship’s lifeboats and reached the
- Author: Lloyd, Steve K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 10 2000
- ISBN10: 0874221943
- Language: English
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Coming Back Alive: The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska’s High Seas
$22.00 Add to cartWhen the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift withou
- Author: Walker, Spike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 11 2002
- ISBN10: 0312302568
- Language: English
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We Fought the Road
$19.95 Add to cartWe Fought the Road is the story of the building of the Alaska-Canada Highway during World War II. More than one third of the 10,607 builders were black; thought to be incapable of performing on a war
- Author: McClure, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1935347772
- Language: English
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The Nature of Southeast Alaska: A Guide to Plants, Animals, and Habitats
$18.99 Add to cartEverything you ever wanted to know about the flora and fauna of Southeast Alaska is contained in the third edition of this lively field guide to the natural world, from bears to banana slugs, mountain… [more below]
- Series: Alaska Geographic
- Author: Carstensen, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: March 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0882409905
- Language: English
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On the Edge of Survival: A Shipwreck, a Raging Storm, and the Harrowing Alaskan Rescue That Became a Legend
$22.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author whose beloved books inspired the hit television show, The Deadliest Catch, a thrilling, true adventure tale in the Alaskan seas.
In 2004, during a brutal storm, a Malaysian c- Author: Walker, Spike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0312604599
- Language: English
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Rhythm of the Wild: A Life Inspired by Alaska’s Denali National Park
$19.95 Add to cartA compelling memoir about Kim Heacox’s more than thirty-year relationship with the most iconic landscape in Alaska
- Author: Heacox, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1493049585
- Language: English
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The Northern Lights: Celestial Performances of the Aurora Borealis
$22.95 Add to cartThe northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis, put on remarkable shows of light and motion in high latitudes–Alaska being the perfect place to see them. Shot with ultra-high definition camer… [more below]
- Author: Pederson, Daryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1632170019
- Language: English
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The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
$50.99 Add to cartIn 1925, a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through icebound Nome, Alaska. The life-saving serum was a thousand miles away, and a blizzard was brewing. Airplanes could not fly in such conditions: only… [more below]
- Author: Salisbury, Gay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 25 2010
- ISBN10: 0393019624
- Language: English
