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Title:
Togo
JLCTITLE245:
Robert J. Blake ; editor, Patricia Lee Gauch.
Personal Author:
Blake, Robert J.
Publication Information:
New York : Philomel Books, ©2002.
Physical Description:
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color maps ; 22 x 29 cm
ISBN:
9780399233814
Abstract:
In 1925, Togo, a Siberian husky who loves being a sled dog, leads a team that rushes to bring diphtheria antitoxin from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska.

A biography of Togo, the lead dog of the Alaskan dogsled team which made the historic 1925 journey across Alaska to retrieve medicine during a diphtheria epidemic. The amazing 674 mile journey made by the dogsled team and their human leader, Leonhard Seppala, became the inspiration of the Alaskan Iditarod.
Reading Level:
Elementary Grade.

420 Lexile.

420 L Lexile
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader 3.8.

Reading Counts! 3.3.

Accelerated Reader AR LG 3.8 0.5 59496.

2.0 Reading Counts RC K-2 3.3 32025.

Accelerated Reader Grades K-4 3.8 0.5 Quiz 59496 English fiction, vocabulary quiz available.
Personal Subject:
Togo (Dog), 1913-1929-Juvenile fiction.
Subject Term:
Siberian husky -- Alaska -- Juvenile fiction.

Mushers -- Alaska -- Juvenile fiction.

Diphtheria -- Alaska -- Nome -- Juvenile fiction.

Diphtheria antitoxin -- Juvenile fiction.

Sled dogs -- Fiction.

Siberian husky -- Fiction.

Dogs -- Fiction.

Diphtheria -- Fiction.
Geographic Term:
Iditarod National Historic Trail (Alaska) -- History -- Juvenile fiction.

Alaska -- Fiction.
Added Author:
Gauch, Patricia Lee.
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