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1) Eight below
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
An American geologist flies to Antarctica to participate in a project at the United States Research Base. Once there, he teams up with arctic guide Jerry Shepard and his best friend, Cooper. The scientist soon discovers that Shepard also has eight other valuable friends -- a pack of sled dogs he's worked with for years, who have rescued him from a number of tight spots. As the three men explore a frozen mountain region, an unexpected accident coupled...
2) 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.
3) Wilderness
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
As Irish teenager Gráinne anxiously prepares for a reunion with her mother, who abandoned the family years before, Gráinne's half-brothers and their mother take a dogsledding vacation in Finland.
4) Iditarod
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a history of the Iditarod race, discussing its history, traditions, and the possible dangers the racers and their dogs face.
5) Wood-song
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
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 Alasaka.
6) Snow dogs
Series
Publisher
[Walt Disney Home Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A Miami dentist, who has an aversion to snow and dogs, inherits a rundown house and a sled dog team in Alaska. His first thought is to sell them and return to Miami, but a local woman acquaints him with Alaskan life.
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...
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