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Read-Alikes for
The Secret of the Seal
by Deborah Davis
Book Capers, our book discussion group for students in
grades 2 & 3, read and discussed The Secret of the Seal.
If you liked this book, you may also like reading other stories about the Eskimo people:
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| The Little Igloo
| by Lorraine Beim
| J BEI
| When Tipou builds an igloo for his dog Kivi, everyone laughed. But when Tipou and Kivi get lost in a snowstorm they find out how lucky it was that Tipou could make an igloo.
| | Don't Shoot
| by Roxane Chadwick
| J CHA
| An Eskimo boy determines to devote his life to protecting polar bears from poachers.
| | Long Claws
| by James Houston
| J HOU
| An Eskimo boy and girl make a perilous trek across the frozen tundra to bring food to their family, trailed by a huge grizzly bear.
| | An Eskimo Birthday
| by Tom D. Robinson
| J ROB
| More than anything else, Eeka wants furs for her birthday to fmish the parka her mother has made for her.
| | Goodbye, My Island
| by Jean Rogers
| J ROG
| Twelve-year-old Esther Atoolik tells of the last winter her people spent on King Island, Alaska, in the early 1960's.
| MORE BOOKS TO ENJOY: Selections from the non-fiction collection.
| | The Day Tuk Became a Hunter and Other Eskimo Stories
| retold by Ronald Melzack
| J 398.2089971 MEL
| Ten stories from the folklore and personal experience of the people the Indians named "Eskimos" meaning "Eaters-of-raw-meat".
| | Tiktala
| by Margaret Shaw-MacKinnon
| J 398.2089971 SHA
| When the spirit guide changes her into a seal, Tiktala learns the ways of seals and how harmful humans can be.
| | Seal Journey
| by Richard and Jonah Sobol
| J 599.745 SOB
| The author and his 8-year-old son journey to the ice floes of eastern Canada to observe the thousands of harp seal pups bom there each year.
| | The Fur Seals of Pribilof
| by Jack Denton Scott
| J 599.746 SCO
| Looks at the history of the more than one million fur seals that gather each summer in the Pribilof Islands off the coast of Alaska to give birth to baby seal pups.
| | Arctic Hunter
| by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith
| J 970.004 ESKIMO
| A 10-year-old Eskimo boy who lives far north of the Arctic Circle describes his family's annual spring trip to their camp, where they spend several weeks hunting and fishing for food for the rest of the year.
| | Eskimo Boy
| by Russ Kendall
| J 970.004 ESKIMO
| | Describes the home, family, school, and day-to-day life of a 7-year-old Eskimo boy living in a small village in Alaska.
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This list was prepared by Youth Services at St. Charles Public Library,
December 1998.
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