Orem Library

Featuring full-color photographs, this DK Reader takes youngsters into the exciting world of dogsled racing, revealing what it takes to be the leader of the pack.

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.

"A decade after leaving his family's bush pilot operation to become a Pararescue Jumper, Dodge Kingston is back home in Alaska. He hadn't counted on meeting up again with Echo, a girl with a spirit as free as the sky. When she goes missing, he hopes all her skills will keep her safe until he can reach her-and that she'll accept his help when he does"--

Doc Oliver and Bob Melville are two fugitives eking out a living in Alaska. Then their solitude is disturbed by the arrival of the man who framed Melville years ago.

The winner of Alaska's world-famous Iditarod -- a grueling, eleven-hundred-mile dog sled race across a frigid Arctic wilderness---takes home a $250,000 purse. But this year, the prize is survival. Only the toughest and the most able come to compete in this annual torturous test of endurance, skill, and courage. Now, suddenly and inexplicably, the top Iditarod contestants are dying one by one in bizarre and gruesome ways. Jessie Arnold, Alaska's premier...

Concludes an unforgettable excursion around the world with once-in-a-lifetime travel adventures, including a dogsled ride uner the shadow of Mt. McKinley, an expedition into the jungles of Ecuador, sailing aboard a two-masted brigantine around the Caribbean's tropical islands, and an exploration of the beautiful and baffling Anasazi cliff dwellings in Colorado.