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Here is a list of great winter reading!
I. EARTH/SPACE ENVIRONMENTS
SCIENCE FICTION
Adams, Douglas. (1979). The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
New York: Pocket Books. 215 pages.
Wells, H. G. (1964). The War of the Worlds. Illustrated by
Joe Mugnaini. Introduction by J. B. Priestley. New York: Heritage
Press. 188 pages. (A strange object lands on Earth. What happens
to the Earth? To the aliens? Find out!)
II. TALES FROM THE TUNDRA
FICTION
George, Jean Craighead. (1972). Julie of the Wolves. New
York: Harper Trophy (Paperback). (An Eskimo girl runs away, and
becomes lost in the tundra! There she meets a wolf family. This
tale may have roots in true stories of children's being raised by
wolves.)
London, Jack. (1995). The Call of the Wild. With an
illustrated reader's companion by Daniel Dyer. 284 pages.
(A dog is kidnapped from its home in California and ends up as a sled
dog in the Northern woods--abused, until it finds one good master.)
Paulsen, Gary. (1996). Brian's Winter. New York: Delacorte.
(A boy has to survive a winter in the arctic.)
Paulsen, Gary. (1987). Hatchet. New York: Bradbury Press.
(The plane a boy is a passenger in crashes in the North woods.)
Plummer, Louise. (1995). The Unlikely Romance of Kate
Bjorkman. New York, New York: Bantam/Doubleday/Dell Publishing
Group, Inc. (A teenager's brother brings friends home to spend
Christmas with him and his family in Minnesota.)
FOLK TALES
Phelps, Ethel Johnston. (1981). The Maid of the North. 1rst
ed. Illustrated by Lloyd Bloom. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and
Winston. (Folk tales of heroines from around the world!)
NON-FICTION
Harper, Kenn, ed. (1983). Christmas in the Big Igloo: True
Tales from the Canadian Arctic. Outcrop the Northern Publishers.
(These are tales of how Eskimo and European culture blend in the
Christmas celebrations.)
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