Balto and the Great Race (7 page)

Text copyright © 1999 by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel. Illustrations copyright © 1999 by Nora Köerber. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody.
Balto and the great race / by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel; illustrated by Nora Köerber.
   p. cm. “A Stepping Stone Book.”
SUMMARY
: Recounts how the sled dog Balto saved Nome, Alaska, in 1925 from
a diphtheria epidemic by delivering medicine through a raging snowstorm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-55450-5
1. Balto (Dog)—Juvenile literature. 2. Sled dogs—Alaska—Nome—
Biography—Juvenile literature. 3. Diphtheria—Alaska—Nome—Prevention—
Juvenile literature. [1. Balto (Dog). 2. Sled dogs. 3. Dogs.] I. Köerber, Nora, ill.
II. Title. SF428.7.K55 1999 636.73—dc21 98-35753

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