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	Napoli , Donna Jo. NORTH New York : Greenwillow Books, 2004 IL 5-8, RL 6.2 ISBN 0060579889
Click on the book to read Amazon reviews	Uncle Pete promised to take twelve year old Alvin on a bike trip over spring break, but his overprotective mother won’t let him buy his own mountain bike even after earning over $400 by helping neighbors clean their basements and weed their vegetable gardens. In school, his teacher assigns a report on a famous African American. Alvin is intrigued by Matthew Henson and can’t wait to choose him for his report. Later, Alvin decides to run away after his mother has their neighbor Mrs. Keeys, walk him to school because she believes he is getting mixed up with the wrong crowd. He decides to go to the North Pole and find descendants of Matthew Henson. He meets several Inuit people who help him get to Bylot Island near the Arctic Circle , where he spends several months with Idlouk Tana learning how to survive the cold Arctic sunless days by baking cookies with Polar Bear fat and eating lemming and walrus stew. (Prepared by: Tambra Pingle, SCASL Junior Book Awards)
	SUBJECTS: Runaways -- Fiction. Inuit -- Fiction. Voyages and travels -- Fiction. Bylot Island (Nunavut) -- Fiction. Eskimos -- Fiction. Canada -- Fiction. Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955 -- Fiction.

Napoli , Donna Jo.

NORTH
New York : Greenwillow Books, 2004
IL 5-8, RL 6.2
ISBN 0060579889

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Uncle Pete promised to take twelve year old Alvin on a bike trip over spring break, but his overprotective mother won’t let him buy his own mountain bike even after earning over $400 by helping neighbors clean their basements and weed their vegetable gardens. In school, his teacher assigns a report on a famous African American. Alvin is intrigued by Matthew Henson and can’t wait to choose him for his report. Later, Alvin decides to run away after his mother has their neighbor Mrs. Keeys, walk him to school because she believes he is getting mixed up with the wrong crowd. He decides to go to the North Pole and find descendants of Matthew Henson. He meets several Inuit people who help him get to Bylot Island near the Arctic Circle , where he spends several months with Idlouk Tana learning how to survive the cold Arctic sunless days by baking cookies with Polar Bear fat and eating lemming and walrus stew. (Prepared by: Tambra Pingle, SCASL Junior Book Awards)

SUBJECTS:     Runaways -- Fiction.
                        Inuit -- Fiction.
                        Voyages and travels -- Fiction.
                        Bylot Island (Nunavut) -- Fiction.
                        Eskimos -- Fiction.
                        Canada -- Fiction.
                        Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955 -- Fiction.