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1) Ice dogs
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English
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In this survival story set in Alaska, fourteen-year-old Vicky and her dog sled team find an injured sledder in the wilderness.
2) Dog driven
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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.
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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.
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The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike goldfields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack. Includes illustrations and extended captions providing background information on history, geography, social customs, animals, architecture, literature, and science pertinent to the story.
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"She's always determined to be the stable, reliable one. But now her commitment may destroy her. 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...
9) Canadian Red
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"Lucas Donovan, Canadian North-West Mounted Police constable, is on a mission to bring a ruthless serial killer to justice. Jack Emerson has eluded capture for years in the Canadian wilderness, but Donovan vows that nothing will stop him from seeing the man caught and punished. The oath is personal and professional--because one of them en Emerson killed was Lucas' twin brother. Donovan, believing he knows Emerson better than anyone but restricted...
10) Dogsong
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Something is bothering Russel Susskit. He hates waking up to the sound of his father's coughing, the smell of diesel oil, the noise of snow machines starting up. Only Oogruk, the shaman who owns the last team of dogs in the village, understands Russel's longing for the old ways and the songs that celebrated them. But Oogruk cannot give Russel the answers he seeks; the old man can only prepare him for what he must do alone. Driven by a strange, powerful...
11) Chinook
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During the Klondike Gold Rush, two prospectors and their wolf dog Chinook encounter a mysterious woman travelling with her dog team. One man warms to her - the other distrusts her ...
13) Dogteam
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English
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Portrays the excitement, the danger, and the beauty of a night run.
14) Togo
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Philomel Books
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English
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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.
A biography of Togo, the lead dog of the Alaskan dogsled team which made the historic 1925 journey across Alaska to retrieve medicine during a diphtheria epidemic. The amazing 674 mile journey made by the dogsled team and their human leader, Leonhard Seppala, became the inspiration of the Alaskan Iditarod....
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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.
16) Balto the hero
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Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c1995
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English
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A retelling, based on the film, of how Balto the sled dog saved Nome, Alaska, from a diphteria epidemic by delivering medicine through a raging snowstorm.
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Survival tails volume 2
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"A group of sled dogs must race to survive during a perilous journey across Antarctica"--
19) Togo
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Dog diaries volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"Sled dog Togo--the true hero of the 1925 Serum Run--narrates the story of his life working with musher Leonard Seppala"--
20) Wilderness
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Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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As Irish teenager Grainne anxiously prepares for a reunion with her mother, who abandoned the family years before, Grainne's half brothers and their mother take a dogsleddingvacation in Finland.