Title:
Balto and the great race / by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel ; illustrated by Nora Koerber.
ISBN:
9780679991984
9780679891987
9780613211659
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Publication Information:
New York : Random House, [1999]
©1999
Physical Description:
99 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 21 cm.
General Note:
"A Stepping Stone book."
Contents:
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.
Summary:
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.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR LG 6.3 2.0 31070.
Reading Counts RC 3-5 3.5 3 Quiz: 19833 Guided reading level: P.
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Audience:
870L Lexile
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OCLC Number:
ocm39497755
Availability:
Burnsville - Burnhaven~1
