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1) East
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes how global warming has made the Arctic's oil, gas, natural resources, and minerals more accessible and how competition between nations and corporate interests for control of the resources is endangering the Arctic's fragile ecosystems. --Publisher's description.
3) Revolver
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2010 c2009
Language
English
Description
Finland, 1910: Fifteen-year-old Sig is shocked to see a hole in the frozen lake outside his family's cabin and to find his father's corpse nearby. Why did Einar steer his dog sled across the lake instead of taking the safer land route? Sig's sister and stepmother go for help, leaving Sig alone with Einar's body in the cabin. Soon after, an armed stranger barges in, demanding a share of Einar's stolen gold.
4) Ice
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A modern-day retelling of "East o' the Sun, West o' the Moon" in which eighteen-year-old Cassie learns that her grandmother's fairy tale is true when a Polar Bear King comes to claim her for his bride and she must decide whether to go with him and save her long-lost mother, or continue helping her father with his research.