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Balto and the Great Race
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Balto and the Great Race Paperback - 1999

by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

When dozens of children in a remote Alaska contract diphtheria, Balto the Siberian husky leads a dog-sled team hundreds of miles through a blinding snowstorm to find help. Based on a true story. B&W illustrations.


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Balto has a quiet life as a sled dog--until tragedy strikes. Dozens of children in Nome become sick with diphtheria. Without antitoxin serum, they will perish--and the closest supply is 650 miles away! The only way to get the serum to Nome is by sled, but can the dogs deliver it in time? Heading bravely into a brutal blizzard, Balto leads the race for life.
A Kansas City Children's Book Award for Grades 1-3

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  • Title Balto and the Great Race
  • Author Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Later Printing
  • Pages 112
  • Language EN
  • Publisher Random House Books for Young Readers, New York, New York
  • Date December 21, 1999
  • Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780679891987
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1920's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Geographic Orientation: Alaska
    • Theometrics: Secular

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Citations

  • Booklist, 10/15/1999, Page 438
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2000, Page 415
  • Kirkus Review - Children, 11/01/1999, Page 1744
  • School Library Journal, 03/01/2000, Page 227

About the author

Elizabeth Cody Kimmel lives with her family in Cold Spring, New York. She is the author of Balto and the Great Race, Before Columbus: The Leif Eriksson Expedition, and As Far as the Eye Can Reach.

Nora Kerber is a children's book illustrator whose credits include Balto and the Great Race and Sacagawea: The Journey to the West. She lives in Pasadena, California, with her illustrator husband, Robert Rodriguez, and her two children. Kerber loves animals and has two cats and one dog.

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