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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, who is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack. Buck is a dog born to luxury, but his life changes dramatically when he is sold to be a sled dog in the Yukon Terrority. He earns a reputation for his strength and courage, and is rescued from a series of bad owners by John Thornton, who teaches him to love. When John is...
Author
Series
Dorling Kindersley readers. 4 Proficient readers volume level 4
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Mushers and their dogs race through wind, ice, and snow. Climb aboard!"--Cover back.
4) Granite
Author
Publisher
Trail Breaker Kennel
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
Shares the story of Granite, a dog raised by Susan Butcher to become the leader of her sled dog team, discussing his weakness as a puppy, the potential she nurtured in him, the injury and illness that nearly killed the dog, and his heroic feat in leading Susan and the team through a blizzard to victory in the Iditarod race.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Flora the pig ditches the sedentary life on the farm for an adventure in Antarctica, where she escapes the knife and lives her dream of pulling a sled with a team of dogs"--
6) Woodsong
Author
Publisher
Bradbury Press
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
For a rugged outdoor man and his family, life in northern Minnesota is a wild experience involving wolves, deer, and the sled dogs that make their way of life possible. Includes an account of the author's first Iditarod, a dogsled race across Alaska.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Recounts the life of Balto, the sled dog who saved Nome, Alaska in 1925 from a diphtheria epidemic by delivering medicine through a raging snowstorm. A compelling account, told in easy-to-read format, of a sled dog who led his team over 53 miles of Alaska wilderness to deliver medicine during an outbreak of diptheria in 1925.
8) Bear
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Even on a snowy ski vacation, Lizzie finds a puppy in need.
9) Snow dogs
Series
Publisher
Disney DVD
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
After being named in his birth mother's will, Miami dentist Ted Brooks travels to Alaska to claim the inheritance, her team of sled dogs; Now he must learn how to race them or give them up to a crusty mountain man who wants the dogs for himself.
Author
Series
Publisher
Svenson Group
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
The children visit their grandparents at Snowflake Camp, a resort in Canada. While there solve a mystery involving their teacher, her missing brother and some valuable Eskimo puppies that appear then disappear from an abandoned barn near the Camp.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Adapted from the beloved literary classic, this is the story of Buck, a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Alaskan Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team, and later its leader, Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in the world...
12) Diamond willow
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
In a remote area of Alaska, twelve-year-old Willow helps her father with their sled dogs when she is not at school, wishing she were more popular, all the while unaware that the animals surrounding her carry the spirits of dead ancestors and friends who care for her.
13) Togo
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Sled dog Togo--the true hero of the 1925 Serum Run--narrates the story of his life working with musher Leonard Seppala"--
14) Ice dogs
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2012].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In this survival story set in Alaska, fourteen-year-old Vicky and her dog sled team find an injured sledder in the wilderness.
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