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McKenna, fourteen, is losing her vision to Stargardt's disease, but that will not stop her from competing in a rigorous new sled dog race through the Canadian wilderness.--

"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"--

Portrays the escitement, the danger, and the beauty of a night run.

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

A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels assailed by the modernity of his life, takes a 1400-mile journey by dog sled seeking his own "song" of himself.

Painter and Ugly, two sled dogs who are inseparable best friends, are put on different teams for the Junior Iditarod, but they manage to find their way back to one another for the big race.

Joe May, an overgrown youth with a skinny neck and a large Adam's apple, had eaten only once in the last thirty-six hours and was feeling desperate. When he provided a small service for Hugh Massey, owner of the most famous husky in Alaska, all Joe had in mind was a possible reward. He'd heard that Massey's life revolved around that dog.

Stolen from his comfortable California home, Buck -- a powerful half-St. Bernard, half-Scottish sheepdog -- is shipped to the Klondike and pressed into service as a sled dog. So begins an odyssey in which Buck suffers cruelty and neglect, learns the brutal skills of a survivor, finds a gentle master that he can respect and love, then leaves civilization behind to become the legendary leader of a wolf pack--Cover.

Three northern novellas by Jack London.