Balto and the Great Race

Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody

Balto and the Great Race (Totally True Adventures)

Balto and the Great Race is a classic early reader that tells the true story of how Balto, a sled dog, saved the children of Nome, Alaska. When diphtheria strikes the town, the closest medicine is 650 away by sled. A relay team of mushers and their dogs were assembled - but the last leg was completed in the midst of a blizzard, when not one but two dogs couldn't find their way back home.but Balto came to the rescue!