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1) Sled Dogs
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Did you know that dogs have pulled sleds for more than 1,000 years? Some North American Aboriginal people used dog sleds as their main mode of transportation. Learn more about the work these dogs do in Sled Dogs, a title in the Dogs with Jobs series. Each Dogs with Jobs title features easy-to-read text, stunning visuals, and a challenging educational activity. Dogs with Jobs is a series of AV2 media enhanced books. A unique book code printed on page...
2) Sled Dogs
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In this book, readers explore how dog teams work together to pull sleds, as well as the skills and training this work requires. Short paragraphs of easy-to-read text are paired with plenty of colorful photos to make reading engaging and accessible. The book also includes a table of contents, fun facts, sidebars, comprehension questions, a glossary, an index, and a list of resources for further reading. Apex books have low reading levels (grades 2-3)...
3) Sled Dogs
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When a team of sled dogs hear their musher yell "Hike," they take off through the snow. They race across a frozen lake, pulling their heavy sled behind them. These hard-working canines are helping people in Alaska travel from one town to another. In this exciting introduction to sled dogs, beginning readers will learn all about the brave and loyal dogs that won't let freezing temperatures, harsh winds, and lots of snow keep them from getting the job...
4) Sled Dogs
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Racing over snow and pulling a heavy a sled is all in a day's work for these snow dogs. Learn what it takes to be a sled dog.
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2013
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English
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"From one of the coldest regions on earth come the mighty sled dogs of the Iditarod. With long hours, freezing temperatures, and treacherous climbs, discover how the mushers and their amazing dogs manage to complete (and win) this grueling race across Alaska"--P. [4] of cover.
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CNN Newsource Sales
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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In Alaska's Denali National Park, you'll find six million acres of sprawling forests, majestic mountains, active glaciers and flowing rivers. In the midst of this vast natural beauty, around two million acres of federally protected wilderness exists. Here motorized transport is prohibited. So how does one get around in the winter? Enter the Denali dogs. Denali is the country's only national park with a working sled dog kennel. Let's go meet the hard-working...
8) Sled dogs
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Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"In this book, young readers will learn about sled dogs."--
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Narrates how sled dogs are trained and offers real-life examples of the dogs in action. Additional features include a table of contents, a bullet-point summary of the job, questions to spark critical thinking, a selected bibliography, sources to guide further research, a phonetic glossary, and an index.
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Being dragged, face down, across a frozen Arctic lake behind a team of sled dogs, was the start of my 30-year love affair with mushing. Over the past three decades of adventure, the dogs have provided lessons about love, teamwork, humility, humor and sometimes even death. This is a collection of some of the stories I wrote for an older blog..
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Bearport Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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Can dogs live in the freezing temperatures of the Arctic? Absolutely! Not only can they survive the harsh conditions, they can thrive as important helpers in the community. Find out about these dogs and how they live with humans in the Arctic.
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"A stirring tale of survival, thanks to man's best friend." —Seattle Times
When a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through Nome, Alaska, in 1925, the local doctor knew that without a fresh batch of antitoxin, his patients would die. The lifesaving serum was a thousand miles away, the port was icebound, and planes couldn't fly in blizzard conditions—only the dogs could make it. The heroic dash of dog teams across
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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The film follows the dogsled run of former Minnesota State Representative Frank Moe, who mushed his team of 10 sled dogs from Grand Marais, MN to the Capitol in St. Paul in March, carrying with him nearly 13,000 petition signatures opposing sulfide mining.
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An experienced Iditarod racer, Gary Paulsen celebrates his lead dog and longtime companion, Cookie, in this intimate essay. Paulsen takes readers inside the kennel as Cookie’s last litter of pups grow and learn to pull sleds across the snowy frontier.
Includes an author's note.
17) Ever constant
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Treasures of Nome volume 3
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"On the surface, Whitney Powell is happy working with her sled dogs, but her life is full of complications that push her over the edge. When sickness spreads in outlying villages, Dr. Peter Cameron turns to Whitney and her dogs for help navigating the deep snow, and together they discover that sometimes it's only in weakness you can find strength"--
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Fueled by a passion for running dogs, Gary Paulsen entered the Iditarod, the 1150-mile winter sled-dog race between Anchorage and Nome, in dangerous ignorance and with fierce determination. Winterdance is his account of this seventeen-day battle against nature's worst elements and his own frailty.
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This book documents the return of the surviving sled dogs of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition of 1910—1912 from Antarctica, where they had helped Roald Amundsen become the first human to reach the South Pole. This book is the sequel to the highly acclaimed Roald Amundsen's “Sled Dogs: The Sledge Dogs Who Helped Discover the South Pole”. It chronicles how the sled dogs were used internationally to further promote the expedition's great achievement...
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