Houghton Mifflin Reading: The Nation's Choice: Theme Paperbacks, Above-Level Grade 3.2 Theme 5 - Balto and the Great Race - Softcover

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618062300 ISBN 13: 9780618062300

Publisher: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN, 2000

Synopsis

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Dozens of children in a remote 1925 Alaska town become seriously ill with diphtheria and can only be saved if Balto the Siberian husky successfully leads a team of sled dogs through a dangerous blizzard to deliver their medicine.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Balto has a quiet life as a sled dog?until tragedy strikes. Dozens of children in Nome become sick with diphtheria. Without antitoxin serum, they will perish?and the closest supply is 650 miles away! The only way to get the serum to Nome is by sled, but can the dogs deliver it in time? Heading bravely into a brutal blizzard, Balto leads the race for life.

A Kansas City Children?s Book Award for Grades 1?3
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About the Author:

Elizabeth Cody Kimmel lives with her family in Cold Spring, New York. She is the author of Balto and the Great Race, Before Columbus: The Leif Eriksson Expedition, and As Far as the Eye Can Reach.

Nora Köerber is a children’s book illustrator whose credits include Balto and the Great Race and Sacagawea: The Journey to the West. She lives in Pasadena, California, with her illustrator husband, Robert Rodriguez, and her two children. Köerber loves animals and has two cats and one dog.

About this edition

• Publisher: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0618062300
• ISBN 13: 9780618062300
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112