sled dog racing

Describes the life and work of sled dogs as well as sled dog racing.

The talking puppies are back, and this time they venture to the frosty arctic and team up with new friends in an exciting dogsled race across Alaska. When the going gets tough, the daring dogs have to band together with their new friends, Talon and Shasta, and muster up the courage to face the fur-raising challenges ahead.

Part adventure, part love story, and part inquiry into the mystery of the connection between humans and dogs, this book is a memoir of a woman, her dogs, and what can happen in the place between daring and doubt. Debbie Clarke Moderow ran the Alaskan Iditarod with her sled dogs in 2003 and 2005.

Little Willy hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters.

In this survival story set in Alaska, fourteen-year-old Vicky and her dog sled team find an injured sledder in the wilderness.

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.

New friends Sika and Shen try to beat the odds and win the Great Northern Race--in a sled pulled by a team of sixty-six pugs--in hopes of meeting the Snowfather and having him grant their wish.