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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"The tale of Buck, abducted and mistreated and his gradual adaptation to the wild is a much heralded celebration of the power of instinct and the natural world. This edition includes four short stories: 'The Son of the Wolf', 'To the Man on the Trail', 'The Wisdom of the Trail' and 'An Odyssey of the North'."--Amazon.com.
3) White Fang
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Part wolf and part dog, orphaned White Fang relies on his instincts as well as his inborn strength and courage to survive in the Yukon wilderness despite both animal and human predators but eventually comes to make his peace with man.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of William Howell, a young prospector who braved the arduous journey from Boston to the Yukon Territory in search of gold in the Klondike River valley.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A story of a dog whose life is changed forever. Kidnapped from his sunny California home, Buck is taken to the cold, hard world of the Klondike. Buck is hitched into the traces of a dog sled, but the traces cannot hold his spirit, his will, or his true nature--to be wild--to be free.
Author
Language
English
Description
Commonly considered to be Jack London's tour de force, The Call of the Wild tells the story of Buck, a domesticated dog ripped from a comfortable life when he is stolen from his home on a California ranch. Sold to a pair of men in Canada, Buck is trained as a sled dog in cold wilderness of the Klondike region. However, Buck's ordeal has only begun, as he is forced to learn how to overcome both in the brutal conditions and as the primal social facets...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
[Abridged ed.].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
153 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the tale of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.
Author
Publisher
Great Plains Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
60 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is a fictional tale of Jack, the dog who was a real-life friend to Jack London during the 1897 Yukon Gold Rush and the model for Buck in his 1903 book, Call of the wild. This story imagines what might have happened when Jack was left behind by Jack London, and what adventures he might have had.
11) White Fang
Author
Series
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
240. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Part wolf, part dog, White Fang is an orphan cub in the frozen frontier of the Yukon, exploited and abused by men until one man teaches the animal to recognize his own greatest tribute -- his loyalty.
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