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Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2008, ©1999
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
The story of the heroic role played by sled dogs, including the Siberian husky Togo, in the delivery of antitoxin serum to those stricken with diphtheria in 1925 Nome. Includes historical notes about the event as well as about the Iditarod Sled Dog Race which commemorates it.
Author
Series
Running out of time volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Language
English
Description
When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1995 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.
Author
Series
Dog diaries volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Sled dog Togo--the true hero of the 1925 Serum Run--narrates the story of his life working with musher Leonard Seppala"--
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