mass market paperback, 162 pages
English language
Published May 8, 2007 by Simon Pulse.
Dogsong
by Gary Paulsen
4 stars
(1 review)
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.
Subjects
- Juvenile Fiction
- Children's 12-Up - Fiction - General
- Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)
- Action & Adventure - Survival Stories
- Social Issues - Adolescence
- Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / Survival Stories
- Action & Adventure - General
- Animals - Dogs
- Dogsledding
- Eskimos
- Fiction
- Sled dogs