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Black Star, Bright Dawn

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In this redesigned edition of Scott O’Dell’s classic novel, a young Eskimo girl encounters frightening obstacles when she takes her father’s place within the Iditarod, the yearly 1,172-mile dogsled race in Alaska.

Most young girls’ experiences never involve hunting bearded seals at the ice, even throughout the Alaskan Eskimo culture. In Scott O’Dell’s gripping novel, Bright Morning time is an exception. In her father’s eyes, she became his son’s replacement ever since her brother drowned. When Bright Morning time is 18 years old, her father, recently injured, insists that she take his place within the Iditarod, the famous Alaskan dogsled race covering more than a thousand miles between Anchorage and Nome. Unflinching, yet trembling in her mukluks, she faces her challenge head-on.

Bright Morning time proves herself to be a strong, courageous heroine–crossing rivers, mountain ranges, and vast stretches of frozen tundra–together with her team of dogs, including the lead Black Star. At the same time as the rush of wind and relentless, blinding stretches of ice are exhilarating, the dangers involved make Bright Morning time realize that it is not only the race, but her life that she’s entrusting to her team of dogs. O’Dell, creator of the Newbery Award-winning Island of the Blue Dolphins, has created an intense, suspenseful, clearly written adventure story that is sure to capture the imagination of young readers and take them for a blustery ride. (Ages 9 to 12)

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