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  The Call of the Wild

  by Jack London

  Stolen from his family, a dog named Buck must quickly learn the harsh law of survival among the men and dogs of the goldcrazed North. The plot concerns a previously domesticated dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series of events leads to his serving as a sled dog in the Yukon during the 19th-century Klondike Gold Rush, in which sled dogs were bought at generous prices.
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  Diamond Willow

  by Helen Frost

  "There’s more to me than most people see."Twelve-year-old Willow would rather blend in than stick out. But she still wants to be seen for who she is. She wants her parents to notice that she is growing up. She wants her best friend to like her better than she likes a certain boy. She wants, more than anything, to mush the dogs out to her grandparents’ house, by herself, with Roxy in the lead. But... (more)
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  White Fang

  by Jack London

  With an introduction from award winning K.A. Applegate, White Fang is one of London's classic tales of survival and one of his most popular stories. White Fang is part dog, part wolf, and the lone survivor of his family. In his lonely world, he soon learns to follow the law of the North--kill or be killed.
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  Winterdance

  The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod

  by Gary Paulsen

  Winterdance is Gary Paulsen's account of training his dogs and running in the Iditarod - an 1,180 mile race across Alaska.
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  The Call of the Wild (Great Illustrated Classics)

  by Jack London

  This book is an abridged adaption of the Jack London original.
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  First Light

  by Rebecca Stead

  Peter is thrilled to join his parents on an expedition to Greenland, where his father studies global warming. Peter will get to skip school, drive a dogsled, and–finally–share in his dad’s adventures. But on the ice cap, Peter struggles to understand a series of visions that both frighten and entice him. Thea has never seen the sun. Her extraordinary people, suspected of witchcraft and nearly driven to... (more)
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  Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers

  Reflections on Being Raised by a Pack of Sled Dogs

  by Gary Paulsen

  An experienced Iditarod racer and award-winning author describes his joy at the birth of a litter of pups and the bonding experience of watching them grow, learn, and develop into dogs that pull sleds across the snow.
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  Wind-Wild Dog

  by Barbara M. Joosse

  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 Ziva begins to trust the Man, she learns to use her wild energy to pull his sled, but she’s torn between her love for the Man and the wolf’s call. Will she stay . . .... (more)
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  The Call of the Wild

  Retold from the Jack London Original

  by Jack London

  This is a "retold" adaption of the original.Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts . The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve--all at an incomparable price. Here is the... (more)
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  Diamond Willow

  by Helen Frost

  There’s more to me than most people see. Twelve-year-old Willow would rather blend in than stick out. But she still wants to be seen for who she is. She wants her parents to notice that she is growing up. She wants her best friend to like her better than she likes a certain boy. She wants, more than anything, to mush the dogs out to her grandparents’ house, by herself, with Roxy in the lead. But sometimes when... (more)
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  Alaska Mysteries: Book 4

  Death Takes Passage

  by Sue Henry

  In July of 1897, the S.S. Portland sailed from Skagway, Alaska, to Seattle, Washington, carrying two tons of Yukon gold--its arrival setting off the famed Klondike Gold Rush. Now, a hundred years later, amid great fanfare and publicity, another ship is recreating the fabled voyage. But this time Death is on board. A true Gold Rush buff, Alex Jensen is thrilled to be representing the Troopers on the Spirit of... (more)
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  The Great Serum Race: Blazing the Iditarod Trail

  by Debbie S. Miller

  Ride shotgun with the heroic mushers whose bravery inspired the Iditarod. In the winter of 1925, Nome, Alaska, was hit by an unexpected and deadly outbreak of diphtheria. Officials immediately quarantined the town, but the only cure for the community of more than 1,400 people was antitoxin serum and the nearest supply was in Anchorage—hundreds of miles of snowbound wilderness away. The only way to get it to Nome... (more)
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  The Iditarod: The Greatest Win Ever

  by Monica Devine

  While racing her dogs in the Iditarod, Kara proves that the greatest win is something other than having her team come in first.
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  Baby

  by Joseph Monninger

  "New Hampshire. Cow-freaking Hampshire." It's the last place 15-year-old Baby, abandoned by her alcoholic mother again, wants to be. But her social worker tells her that this stop, with an older couple that races sled dogs, is her last chance before she ends up in a juvie home. Baby, still feeling the pain of her new tatttoo (an Asian tiger on her right butt cheek), thinks she doesn't really care what happens to... (more)
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  Alaska Mysteries: Book 8

  Dead North

  by Sue Henry

  With her cabin a pile of ashes and her lite in pieces, champion Alaskan "musher" Jessie Arnold has gratefully accepted a friend's proposal that she drive his motor home up from Idaho, along the Alaska Highway -- a breathtaking, two thousand-mile-long route winding past hot springs, glaciers, and ice-blue lakes. But the idyllic trip takes a dark turn when a teenage hitchhiker brings terror aboard. Frightened and... (more)
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  Akiak

  A Tale from the Iditarod

  by Robert J. Blake

  When she hurts her paw on the fourth day of the race, Akiak can no longer compete in the Iditarod—the famed dogsledding race through 1,151 miles of Alaskan terrain. Her musher has no choice but to leave her behind. The rules say once a dog is dropped from the race, it may not rejoin the team. But ten-year-old lead dog Akiak doesn’t know the rules, and nothing will stop her from catching up to her team.... (more)
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  Alaska Mysteries: Book 10

  Death Trap

  by Sue Henry

  No author on the crime fiction scene brings the beauty, mystery, majesty, and danger of the Alaskan frontier more vibrantly alive than critically acclaimed award winner Sue Henry. Now she takes us due north once more to this rugged land that famed "musher" and sometime sleuth Jessie Arnold calls home -- a breathtaking world where the summers are brief and winters, like death, are cold and long. With... (more)
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  The Call of the Wild and Other Stories

  by Jack London

  Vibrant, black-and-white illustrations complement London's classic adventure story about the relationship between humans and dogs, focusing on Buck, a dog that becomes a sled dog during the Klondike gold rush and, later, the leader of a wolf pack.
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  The Call of the Wild / White Fang

  by Jack London

  The biting cold and the aching silence of the far North become an unforgettable backdrop for Jack London's vivid, rousing, superbly realistic wilderness adventure stories featuring the author's unique knowledge of the Yukon and the behavior of humans and animals facing nature at its cruelest.
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  The Call of the Wild / White Fang / and Other Stories

  by Jack London

  This collection includes The Call of the Wild and its companion novel, White Fang, as well as all of Jack London's famous dog stories--"Batard," "Moon-Face," "Brown Wolf," "That Spot," and "To Build a Fire."