dogsledding

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dogsledding

Puppies, dogs, and blue northers

reflections on being raised by a pack of sled dogs
2002
Minnesota author and dog musher Gary Paulsen reflects on the growth of his sled dogs as he and his animals discover the world around them.

Granite

2007
Shares the story of Granite, a dog raised by Susan Butcher to become the leader of her sled dog team, discussing his weakness as a puppy, the potential she nurtured in him, the injury and illness that nearly killed the dog, and his heroic feat in leading Susan and the team through a blizzard to victory in the Iditarod race.

Where's the boss?

a dog team alone on Alaska's Iditarod Trail
2000
Alaskan huskies Toby and Crystal must figure out what to do when their musher and boss Joe becomes ill and falls off the sled in the middle of the Iditarod race.

Douggie

the playful pup who became a sled dog hero
2008
The true story about Douggie, a young pup who eventually earned the position of lead dog for a dangerous expedition to the Magnetic North Pole.

The adventures of a South Pole pig

2013
Flora the pig ditches the sedentary life on the farm for an adventure in Antarctica, where she escapes the knife and lives her dream of pulling a sled with a team of dogs.

Bound for snow

2012
Asks readers to determine the plotline in a story with more than twenty possible endings in which a young girl tries to learn snowboarding and train her dog Honey in dogsledding.

Dogteam

1995
Portrays the excitement, the danger, and the beauty of a night run.

Ice island

2012
Thirteen-year-old Tatum's dream of competing in the grueling 1,049-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race may be at an end when she becomes lost in a freak snowstorm during a training run on Alaska's remote Santa Ysabel Island.

Alone across the Arctic

one woman's epic journey by dog team
2001
Pam Flowers tells the story of how, at the age of thirty-five, she decided to pursue a dream and moved from Texas to Alaska where she learned to become a dog musher and eventually became the first female and first American to travel solo across the entire length of the North American Arctic coast by dog team.

Wilderness

2007
As Irish teenager Gr?inne anxiously prepares for a reunion with her mother, who abandoned the family years before, Gr?inne's half-brothers and their mother take a dogsledding vacation in Finland.

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