North
- ISBN-10
- 0060579897
- ISBN-13
- 9780060579890
- Series
- North
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 354
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-01-24
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Author
- Donna Jo Napoli
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. Reprint.
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- 2018-04-12
- 304 pages
- Paperback
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