Balto and the great race
Title
:
Balto and the great race
Personal Author EPSB
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Elizabeth Cody. Kimmel
Summary
:
Recounts how the sled dog Balto saved Nome, Alaska, in 1925 from a diphtheria epidemic by delivering medicine through a raging snowstorm. Balto lives a quiet existence as a sled dog--until tragedy strikes. Dozens of children in the remote town of Nome become sick with diphtheria. Without an antitoxin serum, they will perish--and the closest supply is 650 miles away! No roads exist in the icy wilderness. The only way to get the serum to Nome is by sled. But can the sled dogs deliver the serum in time? Heading bravely into a brutal blizzard, Balto leads the race for life.
Year Published
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1999
Series
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Totally true adventures!
Physical Description
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99 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
Note
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This title may be found in the Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention Red System Choice Library Grade 3 Level P kit.
Contents
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Part I: Nome, Alaska -- Nome: Crisis! -- Nome: Gathering the teams -- Bluff, Alaska -- Bluff: Bad news -- Nome: More bad news -- Norton Sound: Seppala and Togo -- Bluff, Norton Sound, and Golovin -- Bluff, Solomon, and Port Safety -- On the trail -- Past Port Safety -- Nome again -- Part II: Around the country -- Cleveland, Ohio.
Grade Interest level
:
3-6
Subject
:
Balto (Dog).
Sled dog racing -- Alaska -- Nome -- Biography.
Dogs.
Added Author
:
Köerber, Nora,
Summary
:
Recounts how the sled dog Balto saved Nome, Alaska, in 1925 from a diphtheria epidemic by delivering medicine through a raging snowstorm. Balto lives a quiet existence as a sled dog--until tragedy strikes. Dozens of children in the remote town of Nome become sick with diphtheria. Without an antitoxin serum, they will perish--and the closest supply is 650 miles away! No roads exist in the icy wilderness. The only way to get the serum to Nome is by sled. But can the sled dogs deliver the serum in time? Heading bravely into a brutal blizzard, Balto leads the race for life.
ISBN
:
9780679991984
9780679891987
9780613211659
Publisher
:
New York : Random House, ©1999.
| Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
|---|
| Stratford | EF KIM | Book | 30577000137324 | Everybody Chapter Books |