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Author
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Language
English
Description
"Old Keb Wisting is somewhere around ninety-five years old (he lost count awhile ago) and in constant pain and thinks he wants to die. He also thinks he thinks too much. Part Norwegian and part Tlingit Native (with some Filipino and Portuguese thrown in), he s the last living canoe carver in the village of Jinkaat, in Southeast Alaska. When his grandson, James, a promising basketball player, ruins his leg in a logging accident and tells his grandpa...
65) Silenced
Author
Series
Alaskan courage volume 4
Language
English
Description
"After Kayden McKenna discovers the body of a fellow climber, she and Jake Westin team up to investigate the death--provoking threats on her entire family"--
Series
Alaska geographic volume 13, no. 1
Publisher
Alaska Geographic Society
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University of Alaska Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Subzero temperatures, whiteout blizzards, and even the lack of restrooms didn't deter them. Nor did the sneers, harassment, and threats. Wildcat Women is the first book to document the life and labor of pioneering women in the oil fields of Alaska's North Slope. It profiles fourteen women who worked in the fields, telling a little-known history of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. These trailblazers conquered their fears to face hazardous working and living...
69) Wrong alibi
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Evelyn Jones lands a job in small-town Alaska, working for a man in his isolated mountain home. But her bright hopes for the future are shattered when Donald White disappears, leaving her to face charges of theft, embezzlement--and a brutal double murder. Her protestations of innocence count for nothing. Convicted, she faces life in prison...until fate sends her on the run. Evie's escape leaves her scarred and in hiding, isolated...
71) Alaska
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1160L
Language
English
Description
Describes the geography, history, economy and industry, natural resources, arts and recreation, and people of the state of Alaska.
73) The Alaskans
Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
[1977]
Language
English
Description
A pictorial history of Alaska, from its purchase by the United States in 1867 through 1912, chronicling the exploration of the wilderness, the discovery of gold, and the development of the whaling, fishing, and fur industries.
75) The big white
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A quirky, black comedy about Paul Barnell, a nearly bankrupt Alaskan travel agent whose wife, Margaret, is on the brink of insanity. When he finds a frozen body in the dumpster behind his office, Paul thinks this is answer to his financial problems. He tries to pass the body off as his long-lost brother to collect on the insurance money. Not only does he have to worry about an unrelenting investigator and two aspiring hit men are also after him, his...
Author
Series
Song of Alaska volume 3
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Set in turn-of-the-century Alaska, this series conclusion finds Britta at a crossroads where she must finally determine what her heart truly longs for.
