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THE LAMP, THE ICE, AND THE BOAT CALLED FISH
by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
illustrated by Beth Krommes
Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 061800341X
Age Level: 6-up
48 pages

This is the true story of how a boat named "Karluk" (which means fish in the Aleutian language) became stuck in the Arctic ice during a 1913 expedition. Besides the captain and crew, the boat had 40 sled dogs Inupiat (Native American) hunters and an Inupiat family on board. You'll be hooked by this amazing story of survival --- and you'll learn more about the Inupiat culture, too.


---Reviewed by Shannon Maughan

 

 


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