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3) Dogteam
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
On a moonlit winter night, a team of dogs pulls a sled, taking the narrator and readers on a wondrous ride through the snow, into and out of the woods. It is a ride you'll wish would never end.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
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Stolen From Home and sold into a harsh life as a sled dog in northern Canada, Buck must quickly learn to survive. He soon takes his place as leader of the hardworking team, and his strength and courage become legendary among men. But the call of the wild is strong, awakening primal feelings of a life among wolves...
One of the greatest of all wildlife stories, The Call of the Wild will enthrall today's readers as it has since its first publication...
Author
Series
Puppy place. Main series volume 14
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Even on a snowy ski vacation, Lizzie finds a puppy in need.
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 16
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Description
"Alaska, 1925: the diphteria serum s 674 miles away. Without it, the people of Nome will not survive. Nome, Alaska, sits on the edge of the Bering Sea two degrees below the Arctic Circle, and there are few more forbidding places on earth, especially in winter. Dr. Curtis Welch knew that his patients, many of them children, would die without a shipment of fresh serum. The port was icebound and the nearest railhead was almost 700 miles away across mountains,...
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Adapted from the beloved literary classic, this film 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...
9) Dogsong
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels assailed by the modernity of his life takes a 1400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own "song" of himself.
10) Ice dogs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In this survival story set in Alaska, fourteen-year-old Vicky and her dog sled team find an injured sledder in the wilderness.
12) Dog driven
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
McKenna, fourteen, is losing her vision to Stargardt's disease, but that will not stop her from competing in a rigorous new sled dog race through the Canadian wilderness.
13) Torturous trek
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On a cold, gusty night in Circle City, Alaska, Sammy Day walks into Nagle's Bar. He is only twenty-two, but he has been on his own for ten years. He has worked cattle from Montana to Chihuahua, but a little "accident" at a poker table in Montana sent him on a forced march to Alaska to avoid a posse. He is down to his last fifty cents.
14) Togo
Author
Series
Dog diaries volume 4
Pub. Date
[2014].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Sled dog Togo--the true hero of the 1925 Serum Run--narrates the story of his life working with musher Leonard Seppala"--
16) Woodsong
Author
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
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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.
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By the time Blair Braverman was eighteen, she had left her home in California, moved to arctic Norway to learn to drive sled dogs, and found work as a tour guide on a glacier in Alaska. Determined to carve out a life as a tough girl a young woman who confronts danger without apology, she slowly developed the strength and resilience that the North demanded of her. Weaving together fast-paced adventure writing, ethnographic journalism, and elegantly...
18) Sled Dog School
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When eleven-year-old Matt must set up a business to save his failing math grade, he overcomes his self-doubt and also gains two friends along the way.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Introduces the Iditarod sled dog race, describing the brutal elements that challenge competitors, profiling the sled dogs dating back to the famous Balto, and offering insight into how Iditarod dogs are trained to work as a team.
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