John E Smelcer
1) The trap
Author
Language
English
Description
In alternating chapters, seventeen-year-old Johnny Least-Weasel, who is better known for brains than brawn, worries about his missing grandfather, and the grandfather, Albert Least-Weasel, struggles to survive, caught in his own steel trap in the Alaskan winter.
Author
Publisher
Leapfrog Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
154 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Seth is a teenage deckhand on his father's boat when he and his dog are washed overboard and swept to one of Alaska's small islands where they struggle for months to survive off land and sea, while his desperate father endures his own emotional journey and never gives up hope.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
166 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
As their Alaskan village's only survivors of sickness brought by white men one winter early in the twentieth century, sisters Millie, aged thirteen, and Maura, ten, make their way south in hopes of finding someone alive.
4) Lone wolves
Author
Publisher
Leapfrog Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
189 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
While her Native Alaskan peers feel trapped between traditional and modern cultures, sixteen-year-old Deneena Yazzie learns the old language and ways from her grandfather and trains for the Great Race with her lead dog, a blue-eyed wolf.