North
By: Donna Jo Napoli.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955 -- Fiction; Runaways -- Fiction; Inuit -- Fiction; Voyages and travels -- Fiction; Eskimos -- Fiction; Bylot Island (Nunavut) -- Fiction; Canada -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Tired of his mother's overprotectiveness and intrigued by the life of African American explorer Matthew Henson, twelve-year-old Alvin travels north and spends a season with a trapper near the Arctic Circle.