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"Carefully leveled text and engaging full-color photos introduce early fluent readers to Arctic biome and the food chains that operate there. Includes activity, glossary, and index."-- Provided by publisher.

"Northern Lights reveals Scotland's previously unsung role in the remarkable history of Arctic exploration. There was the intrepid John Ross, an eccentric hell-raiser from Stranraer and a veteran of three Arctic expeditions; his nephew, James Clark Ross, the most experienced explorer of his generation and discoverer of the Magnetic North Pole; Dr. John Richardson of Dumfries, who became an accidental cannibal and deliberate executionaer of a murderer...

Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to the Arctic, where a polar bear leads them onto very thin ice.

The Volunteer, a nineteenth-century Yorkshire whaling ship, becomes the stage for a confrontation between brutal harpooner Henry Drax and ex-army surgeon Patrick Sumner, the ship's medic, during a violent, ill-fated voyage to the Arctic.

"The animals that call the Arctic home are animals who love the cold. They're made for it! As Earth's temperatures rise and global warming worsens, Arctic animals will have fewer places to call home. Inside this colorful and important volume, readers will see numerous threatened Arctic animals and learn why they are suffering. The book includes general information about what it means to be on the scale of threatened species, followed by specific examples....

The book invites children to count down from ten crunching caribou to one silent moose, finding other northern animals from seals to wolves to snowy owls along the way. As the animals appear, so does more and more snow, until it s a character too, illuminating the differences between light and dark, sky and earth.

"Any animal that lives in the Arctic is tough! This title looks into how the narwhal survives such cold and unforgiving conditions, what it eats, and more"-- Provided by publisher. "Narwhals live in the icy waters of the Arctic. Some people call them unicorns of the sea. But a narwhal is not a myth. It is a type of small, toothed whale." -- page 6.

"Any animal that lives in the Arctic is tough! This title looks into how the Arctic fox survives in such cold and unforgiving conditions, what it eats, and more. The book is complete with large colorful photographs and a more facts section."-- Provided by publisher.

A group of scientists undertake an expedition to Alaska's Federal Wilderness Zone to study the effects of global warming. The expedition changes suddenly when the group heads out on a routine foray into a glacial ice cave and makes an astonishing find.

Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.