Posted by Rebekah
Categories: Adventure, Animals, Dogs, Fiction, Older Readers, Review, Sports
Tags:Moose, Scott O’Dell
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Black Star, Bright Dawn (Paperback)
by Scott O’Dell
ISBN: 0547053193
Price: USD 5.03
40 used & new available from USD 0.69
Bright Dawn is an Eskimo girl whose father, Bartok, is a seal hunter. When Bartok narrowly escapes death by a hunting accident, losing four fingers in the process, some men approach him to run in the Iditarod dogsled race. He refuses, but says that Bright Dawn will do it. After some vigorous training, Bright Dawn and her team of dogs, including Black Star, who is mostly wolf, set out on the biggest adventure of their lives.
It’s interesting to get this first-hand look at what it’s like to drive a dogsled. I don’t think I could do it. There are some Eskimo superstitions in here. But it’s not your ordinary girl/dog hero story. The way the race ends is unexpected.




(10 votes, average: 3.8 out of 5)
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Posted by Rebekah
Categories: Animals, Dogs, Fiction, Older Readers, Out of Print, Review
Tags:Jim Kjelgaard, Moose
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Gasp! A furious moose! Actually, the moose is only a side plot. The real story is about Pete Gant the trapper and Casimir Zluski’s daughter, Helen. Pete and Helen barely have time to discover that they love each other, when Pete, believing that Helen doesn’t care about him, leaves — causing Helen to wonder whether he’ll ever come back.
Don’t panic. It ends well. The moose gets shot, Pete and Helen love each other and the story ends abruptly. Again. I suppose it’s good because it leaves you with the option of continuing the story on your own. I really appreciate how Jim Kjelgaard doesn’t “humanize” animals in his books.




(1 votes, average: 1 out of 5)
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