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A war is brewing in Lyra's world--a battle between those who would keep people in ignorance and those who are willing to fight for true freedom. Lyra is thrust into the middle of the conflict when her uncle Asriel comes to Oxford, fomenting rebellion, and when her best friend, Roger, suddenly disappears. Lyra learns that Roger was kidnapped by a shadowy organization that steals children and, it is rumored, experiments on them. To find him, she will...
Author
Series
His dark materials volume 2
Language
English
Description
As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 12
Language
English
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Description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to the Arctic, where a polar bear leads them onto very thin ice.
4) East
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Series
Language
English
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A young woman journeys to a distant castle on the back of a great white bear who is the victim of a cruel enchantment.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In a time before Lyra Silvertongue was born, the tough American balloonist Lee Scoresby and the great armoured bear Iorek Byrnison meet when Lee and his hare daemon Hester crash-land their trading balloon onto a port in the far Arctic North and find themselves right in the middle of a political powder keg.
Fantasy.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rollo the troll is tired of chores, but after spending time on the tundra with various animal families, from owls to moose, he realizes that he wants to be home for Christmas even if that means behaving himself.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A polar bear waits patiently for spring when the ice breaks up, but after months of hunting, paddling, and resting on ice floes, summer ends and the bear must swim very far to find land. Includes facts about polar bears and the effect of climate change on their environment.
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Language
English
Description
Describes how a polar bear and the little fox that follows it survive over the course of a year in the Arctic. Includes afterword with facts about Arctic animals and Inuit peoples. More lasting friendship evolves between Little Bear and Little Fox when the fox saves his giant friend from killer whales. Breathtaking, snowbound scenes mark this poetic and illustrated triumph. Full color.
13) Serpentine
Author
Series
His dark materials volume 3.4
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
73 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Lyra and Pan journey to the far North once more, seeking advice from the Consul of Witches. A short story that takes place after the events of "The amber spyglass."
14) In arctic waters
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Language
English
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Description
Arctic animals play and chase each other around the ice until they are interrupted by someone. Contains some facts about Arctic animals.
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Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
211 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
New friends Sika and Shen try to beat the odds and win the Great Northern Race--in a sled pulled by a team of sixty-six pugs--in hopes of meeting the Snowfather and having him grant their wish.
16) Sweetest Kulu
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Series
Language
English
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"This beautiful bedtime poem, written by acclaimed Inuit throat singer Celina Kalluk, describes the gifts given to a newborn baby by all the animals of the Arctic. Lyrically and tenderly told by a mother speaking to her own little "Kulu," an Inuktitut term of endearment often bestowed upon babies and young children, this visually stunning book is infused with the traditional Inuit values of love and respect for the land and its animal inhabitants."--...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
Young Anja, whose greatest dream is to be one of Santa's elves, makes friends with the animals that guide her on the journey from her home in the far North to meet Santa.
18) Icefire
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Series
Language
English
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While researching the existence of dragons for an essay that could win him a trip to the Arctic, Chris opens himself to the possibility that a great, ancient treasure exists there, guarded by bears, and that he has some role in its protection.
19) Pup and bear
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A stranded wolf cub is rescued and raised by a loving polar bear, and years later when he is grown into a wolf and on his own, he comes upon a lost polar bear cub, and the cycle begins again.
20) Immi's gift
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Day after day in the frozen north, a young Inuit girl catches brightly-colored objects while ice fishing and uses them to decorate her igloo, until the ice begins to melt and she drops in a gift of her own before leaving for the season.
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