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1) White fang
Author
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
White Fang is part dog and part wolf. To survive in the wilderness he must learn to kill or be killed. He is captured and taken to the Alaska Yukon Territory during the gold rush where he is forced to pull heavy dogsleds and fight for money, until a man named Weedon Scott saves him from destruction and teaches him to love and trust a human master.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On the surface, Whitney Powell is happy working with her sled dogs and welcoming the new additions to her family through her sisters' marriages and an upcoming birth. But her life is full of complications, including an estranged father, that have her on the edge of losing control. Growing up, she was the strong sister, and she can't give that up now. When villagers in outlying areas come down with a horrible sickness, Dr. Peter Cameron turns to Whitney...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
"The magic tree house has returned and it's taking Jack and Annie back in time to Alaska, 1925. There they meet Balto, a jet-black Siberian husky destined to save victims of the diphtheria epidemic. But the trail isn't t easy, and Balto is going to need Jack and Annie s help!"--
Author
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack. White Fang is the story of a wolf-dog who is befriended by a kind man who becomes his master.
6) Togo
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Lexile measure
620L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 22 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1925, Togo, a Siberian husky who loves being a sled dog, leads a team that rushes to bring diphtheria antitoxin from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska.
7) Ice dogs
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 20 cm
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.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 510L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 c 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Ziva, a "wind-wild" young sled dog, decides whether to stay with the man who has trained her or to run free with the wolves and wind. What will Ziva choose, her love for the Man or the freedom of the wild? What will Ziva choose, her love for the Man or the freedom of the wild? Ziva heard the call of the wild. Most mushers believed that Ziva's eyes of different colors made her half wild, so no one wanted her. But one man took a liking to her. As...
10) Granite
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
36 pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
Language
English
11) Togo
Author
Series
Dog diaries volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014].
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
163 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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"--
12) Silver
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1988
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
58 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Even though he is the runt of the litter from her father's prize sled-racing dog, ten-year-old Rachel plans to train her puppy to become a champion racer and determines to track him down when he mysteriously disappears.
13) Snow dogs
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Standard full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a Miami dentist inherits a team of sled dogs, he's got to learn the trade or lose his pack to a crusty mountain man.
Author
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recounts how the sled dog Balto saved Nome, Alaska, in 1925 from a diphtheria epidemic by delivering medicine through a raging snowstorm. Balto lives a quiet existence as a sled dog--until tragedy strikes. Dozens of children in the remote town of Nome become sick with diphtheria. Without an antitoxin serum, they will perish--and the closest supply is 650 miles away! No roads exist in the icy wilderness. The only way to get the serum to Nome is by...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HaperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
30 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Anka, Tooey's new sled dog, goes missing, what can Molly and Tooey do to make sure the log dog finds her way home?
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
AD 1020L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Two dogs recount the relay race that brought life-saving medicine to children in Alaska. It was 1925 and the world was in a diphtheria pandemic. The town of Nome, Alaska, needed the serum to save its children but there was only one way to get there: dog sled. Balto and Togo, two Siberian huskies, were part of the relay race that pushed through below-freezing temperatures and a blizzard to bring the serum to Nome." -- Amazon.com.
In 1925 Balto and...
19) Painter and Ugly
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
AD 600L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Painter and Ugly, two sled dogs who are inseparable best friends, are put on different teams for the Junior Iditarod, but they manage to find their way back to one another for the big race.
Author
Description
Count with Alaska's cutest sled dogs--in a toddler-friendly board book format! A team of frisky huskies introduce counting and parts of the body (noses, paws, ears) in this fun and educational board book. This adaptation pairs simple text with the visual excitement and doggy delight of original illustrations from Wiggle-Waggle Woof! Counting Sled Dogs in Alaska.