List Prepared by Cathy Belben and yalsa-bk@ala.org
December 2003
Bohjalian, Chris. Midwives. (F BOH)
Cut off from the hospital and rescue squad by an ice storm, midwife Sibyl Danforth makes the decision to perform a cesarean section on a patient she believes has died of a stroke during labor, but when her assistant tells police the mother was alive during the surgery, Sibyl and the entire community are drawn into a gripping trial.
Collier, James and Christopher. The Winter Hero. (F COL)
Anxious to be a hero, a young boy relates how he became involved in Shays' Rebellion, begun by farmers in western Massachusetts against what they felt were unfair taxes levied on them by the Boston government.
Crutcher, Chris.
Stotan. (F CRU)
Over winter vacation, a high school coach invites members of his swimming team to a memorable week of rigorous training that tests their moral fiber as well as their physical stamina.
Davis, Claire. Winter Range. (F DAV)
Sheriff Ike Parsons tries to help a local rancher who is down on his luck, but his good intentions are refused and the rancher is so insulted that he plots to kill Ike's wife.
Frazier, Charles.
Cold Mountain. (F FRA)
Inman, a wounded Confederate soldier, leaves the hospital where he is being treated and determines to walk home to his sweetheart Ada, only to find the land and the girl he remembers as changed by the war as he.
Guterson, David.
Snow Falling on Cedars. (F GUT)
In this gripping mystery, a newspaper journalist covers the trial of a Japanese American accused of murder, and must come to terms with his own past.
Hobbs, Will. Far North.
After the destruction of their floatplane, sixteen-year-old Gabe and his Dene friend, Raymond, struggle to survive a winter in the wilderness of the Northwest Territories.
Houston, James A.
Frozen Fire: A Tale of Courage. (F HOU)
Determined to find his father who has been lost in a storm, a young boy and his Eskimo friend brave wind storms, starvation, wild animals, and wild men during their search in the Canadian Arctic.
Judson, William. Cold River. (F JUD)
In the frozen Adirondacks in 1921, fourteen-year-old Lizzy and her younger brother Tim, battle for survival after losing their father during one of the worst snowstorms of the century.
London, Jack. Call of the Wild. (F LON)
A dog in the Klondike reverts to wilderness life and becomes the leader of a pack of wolves.
Martin, Nora. A Perfect Snow. (F MAR)
Seventeen-year-old-Ben must deal with a violent white-supremacy hate group in his small Montana town because his father and his friends are involved with it.
Mazer, Harry.
Snowbound. (F MAZ)
Two teenagers caught
in a snowstorm face a fight for survival in a desolate area and learn to
understand themselves and each other.
McDaniel,
Lurlene. Starry, Starry Night. (F MCD)
A collection of
three stories in which teenagers face life-altering situations.
Mowat, Farley.
The Snow Walker. (F MOW)
A collection of
stories, legends, fables, essays and factual accounts, from the Arctic North,
each offering a haunting portrait of a land and its people and capturing the
essential mystery of the Artic and of Eskimo lore.
Paulsen, Gary. Brian's Winter. (F PAU)
Instead of being
rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story
portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a
winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.
Paulsen, Gary. Dogsong. (F PAU)
A fourteen-year-old
Eskimo boy who feels assailed by the modernity of his life takes a 1400-mile
journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own
"song" of himself.
Paulsen, Gary. The Winter Room. (F PAU)
A young boy growing
up on a northern Minnesota farm describes the scenes around him and recounts
his old Norwegian uncle's tales of an almost mythological logging past.
Plummer, Louise. The Unlikely
Romance of Kate Bjorkman. (F PLU)
Seventeen-year-old Kate hopes for romance when her older brother's
friend Richard comes to stay at their house during Christmas vacation.
Stern, Richard. Snowbound Six. (F STE)
The members of a volunteer Search and Rescue team struggle to reach six
people who are trapped by a violent blizzard in a cave in the mountains of New
Mexico.
Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome.
A grim tale of retribution involving a discouraged New England farmer,
his hypochondriac wife, and a girl who still finds some joy in living.
Krakauer, Jon. Into the Wild. (917.98 KRA)
The story of Chris McCandless, a twenty-four-year-old who walked into
the Alaskan wilderness on an idealistic journey and was found dead of
starvation four months later. Krakauer
ttempts to discover what led the young man to that point.
Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin
Air. (796.52 KRA)
The author relates his experience of climbing Mount Everest during its
deadliest season and examines what it is about the mountain that makes people
willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense.
Martin, Jacqueline Briggs.
Snowflake Bentley. (551.57 MAR)
A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of
individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.
Paulsen, Gary. How Angel
Peterson Got His Name. (BIO PAU)
Author Gary Paulsen relates tales from his youth in a small town in
northwestern Minnesota in the late 1940s and early 1950s, such as skiing behind
a souped-up car and imitating daredevil Evel Knievel.
Paulsen, Gary. Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod. (BIO PAU)
The author's account of his most ambitious quest, to know a world
beyond his knowing, to train for and run the Iditarod.
Pfetzer, Mark. Within Reach: My Everest Story. (796.5 PFE)
The author describes how he spent his teenage years climbing mountains in the United States, South America, Africa, and Asia, with an emphasis on his two expeditions up Mount Everest.
Read, Piers Paul. Alive: The Story of the Andes
Survivors. (613.6 REA)
Discusses the ordeal of the survivors of an airplane crash in 1972 in the Andes wilderness.