Akiak the sled dog refuses to give up after being injured during the Iditarod sled dog race.

In 1925, Togo, a Siberian husky who loves being a sled dog, leads a team that rushes to bring diphtheria antitoxin from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska.

When eleven-year-old Matt must set up a business to save his failing math grade, he overcomes his self-doubt and also gains two friends along the way.

"Sled dog Togo--the true hero of the 1925 Serum Run--narrates the story of his life working with musher Leonard Seppala"--

The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.

"When a terrible snowstorm strikes, Quiquern knows it's up to him to save his village from going hungry. And so he sets off on a sled with his dog for a great adventure"--P. [4] of cover.

"Patrick and Beth knew they'd be facing a danger more fierce than a polar bear or a walrus, but they never thought their opponent wouldn't be large enough to see. After arriving in Alaska in the winter of 1925, they discover that a very small enemy--a disease called diphtheria--is sweeping through the town of Nome. Can Patrick help retrieve enough medicine for the children by riding along with Clearsky and his team of sled dogs? Meanwhile, Beth makes...

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

"Flora the pig ditches the sedentary life on the farm for an adventure in Antarctica, where she escapes the knife and lives her dream of pulling a sled with a team of dogs"--