Balto and the great race

Titre
Balto and the great race

Elizabeth Cody. Kimmel

Sommaire
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.

Date de publication comme intervalle
1999

Totally true adventures!

Description matérielle
99 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.

Note générale
This title may be found in the Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention Red System Choice Library Grade 3 Level P kit.

Table des matières
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.

Terme de vedette-matière
Balto (Dog).
 
Sled dog racing -- Alaska -- Nome -- Biography.
 
Dogs.

Vedette secondaire auteur
Köerber, Nora,

Résumé
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.

Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
9780679991984
 
9780679891987
 
9780613211659

Informations de publication
New York : Random House, ©1999.


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