Pub Date: November 3, 2015
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Code: 0690
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: 10 to 12
Physical Info: 0.60" H x 7.60" L x 5.20" W ( 0.45 lbs) 288 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Science and Nature | Weather | Action and Adventure | Survival Stories | Animals | Dogs | Family | General see also headings under Social Themes | Places | United States | Social Themes | Friendship | Sports and Recreation | Camping and Outdoor Activities | Girls and Women
Description: A middle-grade novel of high adventure set in Alaska about a girl with her own dog team who finds an injured sledder in the wilderness. How they survive for the next few days makes for gripping adventure reading.
Brief description: Terry Lynn Johnson, author of Ice Dogs, Sled Dog School, Dog Driven and the Survivor Diaries series, lives in Whitefish Falls, Ontario where for ten years she owned a team of eighteen Alaskan Huskies.
www.terrylynnjohnson.comReview Quotes:
"A page-turner full of white-knuckle action. . . . Readers will be riveted until the end."
--Publishers Weekly "[A] thoroughly engaging and incredibly suspenseful survival story. . . Well-crafted, moving and gripping."
--Kirkus "Debut novelist Johnson links character to setting by showing how Vicky uses her knowledge of the land and copes with the elements, creates shelter, and snares animals in order to survive."
--The Horn Book Magazine "The high-stakes adventure and episodic nature of the chapters will make this book an easy sell for reluctant readers."
--School Library Journal