Victoria Secord, a fourteen-year-old Alaskan dogsled racer, loses her way on a routine outing with her dogs. With food gone and temperatures dropping, her survival and that of her dogs and the mysterious boy she meets in the woods is entirely up to her.
The author Terry Lynn Johnson is a musher herself, and her crackling writing puts readers at the reins as Victoria and Chris experience setbacks, mistakes, and small triumphs in their wilderness adventure.
A middle-grade novel of high adventure set in Alaska about a girl with her own dog team who finds an injured sledder in the wilderness. How they survive for the next few days makes for gripping adventure reading.
A page-turner full of white-knuckle action. . . . Readers will be riveted until the end.
—Publishers Weekly
[A] thoroughly engaging and incredibly suspenseful survival story. . . Well-crafted, moving and gripping.
—Kirkus
Debut novelist Johnson links character to setting by showing how Vicky uses her knowledge of the land and copes with the elements, creates shelter, and snares animals in order to survive.
—The Horn Book Magazine
The high-stakes adventure and episodic nature of the chapters will make this book an easy sell for reluctant readers.
—School Library Journal
Terry Lynn Johnsonlives in Whitefish Falls, Ontario, where for ten years she owned a team of eighteen Alaskan huskies. Visit her website at www.terrylynnjohnson.com.
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SATURDAY
All eight of my dogs are stretched in front of me in pairs along the gangline. They claw the ground in frustration as the loudspeaker blares.
“Here’s team number five. Our hometown girl, fourteen-year-old Victoria Secord!”
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