John Smelcer
Author
Publisher
Leapfrog Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 5
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.
2) The trap
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 5
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
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 5
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.