Dogsong
by Gary Paulsen
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A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels assailed by the modernity of his life takes a 1400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own "song" of himself.
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Dogsledding, Eskimos, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Self-perception, Sled dogs, Inupiat, Children's stories, American, Newbery Honor, Large type books, Inuit, Newbery Medal book, Bildungsromans, Coming of age, Children's fiction, Eskimos, fiction, Dogs, fiction, Self-perception, fiction, award:Newbery_award, lexile:930, lexile_range:901-1000, age:min:10, age:max:14, grade:min:5, grade:max:9, Adventure and adventurers, fictionShowing 6 featured editions. View all 20 editions?
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New York, N.Y
Edition Notes
Originally published: New Yor : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1985.
Cecilia Bard Multicultural Library for Peace
Newbery Honor book
ALA Notable Children's Book
ALA Best Book for Young Adults
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"RUSSEL SUSSKIT rolled out of the bunk and put his feet on the floor and listened in the darkness to the sounds of morning."
Work Description
Something is bothering Russel Susskit. He hates waking up to the sound of his father's coughing, the smell of diesel oil, the noise of snow machines starting up.
Only Oogruk, the shaman who owns the last team of dogs in the village, understands Russel's longing for the old ways and the songs that celebrated them. But Oogruk cannot give Russel the answers he seeks; the old man can only prepare him for what he must do alone. Driven by a strange, powerful dream of a long-ago self and by a burning desire to find his own song, Russel takes Oogruk's dogs on an epic journey of self-discovery that will change his life forever.
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