Jean Craighead George
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Miyax rebels against home and soon finds herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness, without food or even a compass. Slowly she is accepted by a pack of Arctic wolves, and she comes to love them as if they were her brothers. With their help, she struggles day by day to survive. She is forced to think about her past and to define for herself the traditional riches of Eskimo life: intelligence, fearlessness, and love.
5) Julie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
When Julie returns to her father's Eskimo village, she struggles to find a way to save her beloved wolves in a changing Arctic world and she falls in love with a young Siberian man.
7) Snow Bear
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 480L
Language
English
Description
Bessie and a polar bear cub named Snow Bear play on the ice, while her older brother and the mother bear watch to make sure that everyone is safe.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
For over a century, wolves were persecuted in the United States and nearly became extinct. Gradually reintroduced, they are thriving again in the West, much to the benefit of the ecosystem.
9) Firestorm
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Alex enjoys kayaking behind the raft of his aunt and uncle as they journey down Idaho's Salmon River, until they find themselves in the middle of a forest fire.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a tribute to the efforts of dedicated volunteers who helped save the American bald eagle from extinction, including the story of a young boy who helped hatch an eaglet.
11) Everglades
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the Florida Everglades, the evolution of this unique area, and the impact humans have had on its once-abundant life forms.
12) Ice whale
Author
Publisher
Penguin Group USA
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
In 1848, ten-year-old Toozak, a Yupik Eskimo, sees a whale being born and is told by a shaman that he and his descendants must protect that whale, which Toozak names Siku, as long as it lives.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Description
When his older sister Julie brings home two small wolf pups, Amaroq takes care of the one called Nutik and grows to love it, even though Julie tells him it cannot stay.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
As she grows through the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of New York, a peregrine falcon called Frightful interacts with various humans, including the boy who raised her, a falconer who rescues her, and several unscrupulous poachers, as well as with many animals that are part of the area's ecological balance.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Laws protecting the spotted owls in the old growth forest of northern California cost Borden's father his logging job. Angry, Borden vows to kill any spotted owl he sees, but has a change of heart when he and his father find themselves taking care of a young owlet.
19) Water sky
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
A boy who goes to Barrow, Alaska, to live with friends of his father for awhile learns the importance of whaling to the Eskimo culture.