Kirkpatrick Hill
2) Winter camp
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Toughboy and his younger sister must survive the harsh Alaskan winter at a friend's winter trapping camp. Sequel to "Toughboy and Sister."
Author
Publisher
M.K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
In the 1860s, Erinia Pavaloff's life at a trading post in Russian America gets more complicated when the region is annexed to the United States and members of the small community become American Alaskans.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
When Deet's father is jailed for using drugs, Deet learns that prison is not what he expected, nor are other people necessarily the way he thought they were.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
"It's the 1920s, and Bo was headed for an Alaska orphanage when she won the hearts of two tough gold miners who set out to raise her, enthusiastically helped by all the kind people of the nearby Eskimo village"--
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
In 1920s Alaska, when five-year-old Bo and her two adoptive fathers move to Iditarod Creek to work at a new gold mine, Bo feels homesick until she realizes there is friendship to be found everywhere--and Iditarod Creek may hold some surprises for her already unconventional family.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
The death of their drunken father strands ten-year-old Toughboy and his younger sister at a remote fishing cabin on the Yukon River near Ruby, Alaska, where they spend a summer trying to cope with dwindling food supplies and hostile wildlife.