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Books with author James M. Houston

  • Drifting Snow: An Arctic Search

    James Houston

    Paperback (Puffin, Feb. 1, 1994)
    Having been taken from her Arctic home when a tiny child, a teenager returns to look for her parents and learn once again about her Eskimo culture.
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  • The Falcon Bow: An Arctic Legend

    James Houston

    Paperback (Puffin, June 1, 1992)
    Kungo, a young Inuit, seeks to prevent a bloody feud when his people and a rival Indian tribe find themselves in competition for dwindling food supplies.
  • The FALCON BOW An Arctic Legend

    James Houston

    Hardcover (Margaret K. McElderry, Dec. 1, 1986)
    Kungo, a young Inuit, seeks to prevent a bloody feud when his people and a rival Indian tribe find themselves in competition for dwindling food supplies.
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  • River Runners

    James Houston

    Paperback (Puffin Books, Dec. 3, 1981)
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  • Frozen Fire

    James M. Houston

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books: A Division of Sanval, Oct. 16, 1992)
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  • Running West

    James Houston

    Paperback (Kensington, June 1, 1996)
    Unjustly banished from Scotland, William Stewart and Thana, a beautiful Dene Indian girl, journey deep into the heart of the unexplored sub-Arctic wilderness, in a story of love and survival set in eighteenth-century Canada. Reprint.
  • tikta' Liktak

    James Houston

    Hardcover (Harcourt Brace & Company, March 15, 1965)
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  • River Runners

    James A. Houston

    Mass Market Paperback (Puffin, June 1, 1992)
    Two young boys, who have been sent into the Canadian interior to set up a fur-collecting station, are befriended by a Naskapi Indian family.
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  • River Runners: A Tale of Hardship and Bravery

    James A. Houston

    Hardcover (Atheneum, Oct. 1, 1979)
    Two young boys, who have been sent into the Canadian interior to set up a fur-collecting station, are befriended by a Naskapi Indian family.
  • Whiteout

    James Houston

    Paperback (Fitzhenry and Whiteside, Nov. 11, 2002)
    Jonathan Arid, a rebellious 17-year-old city boy, is sent to live with his uncle at a remote Arctic settlement on Baffin Island, a World away from his passion: leading and playing in a small jazz group. Angry at his mother and relatives, he must come to terms with new ways - and with the harsh reality of an environment where one small mistake can mean certain death.
  • Long claws: An Arctic adventure

    James A Houston

    Paperback (Houghton Mifflin, Feb. 26, 1996)
    1996 Houghton Mifflin Paperback Plus Level 6 Theme: Survival! -- Long Claws: An Arctic Adventure (P) by James Houston ***ISBN-13: 9780395732625 ***Pages: 45
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  • Songs of the Dream People; Chants and Images from the Indians and Eskimos of North America.

    James A. Houston

    Library Binding (Atheneum, Oct. 1, 1972)
    Includes translations of traditional chants from a number of North American tribes including the Eskimo, Winnebago, Sia, Tenasa, Tlingit, Delaware, Papago, Pima, Haida, and many others.