Dogsong / Gary Paulsen.
A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels assailed by the modernity of his life takes a 1400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own "song" of himself.
Record details
- ISBN: 0027701808 :
- Physical Description: 177 p. ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Bradbury Press, c1985.
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Awards Note: | Newbery Honor Book, 1986 |
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Subject: | Eskimos > Juvenile fiction. Eskimos > Fiction. |
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Gr. 7-9. Through the challenge of running a sled-dog team in the Arctic, Russel connects his present with the past. He learns, with the help of his grandfather, to listen to the ancient music of the "dogsong," bridging the snowmobiling of his present life with the dogsledding of his ancestors.