Togo

Resource Information

The work Togo represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Coweta Public Library System. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

Togo

Statement of responsibility

Robert J. Blake

Creator

• trueBlake, Robert J

Subject

• Alaska
• trueAlaska
• Alaska -- Fiction
• Alaska -- Iditarod National Historic Trail
• Alaska -- Nome
• Diphtheria
• trueDiphtheria
• Diphtheria -- Alaska | Nome -- Juvenile literature
• Diphtheria -- Fiction
• Diphtheria antitoxin
• Diphtheria antitoxin -- Juvenile literature
• trueDogs
• Dogs -- Fiction
• History
• Iditarod National Historic Trail (Alaska) -- History -- Juvenile literature
• Juvenile works
• Mushers
• Mushers -- Alaska -- Juvenile literature
• trueSiberian huskies
• Siberian husky
• Siberian husky -- Alaska -- Juvenile literature
• Siberian husky -- Fiction
• trueSled dogs
• Sled dogs -- Fiction
• Togo (Dog)
• Togo (Dog) -- Juvenile literature

Genre

• Fiction
• trueHistory
• Juvenile literature
• Juvenile works

Language

eng

Summary

• In 1925, Togo, a Siberian husky who loves being a sled dog, leads a team that rushes to bring diphtheria antitoxin from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska
• A biography of Togo, the lead dog of the Alaskan dogsled team which made the historic 1925 journey across Alaska to retrieve medicine during a diphtheria epidemic. The amazing 674 mile journey made by the dogsled team and their human leader, Leonhard Seppala, became the inspiration of the Alaskan Iditarod

Tone

• trueSuspenseful

Illustration

• trueImpressionistic

Award

• Texas Bluebonnet Award, 2005.
• Golden Sower Award (Nebraska), Grades K-3, 2005.
• Land of Enchantment Book Award (New Mexico), Children's category, 2006.
• North Carolina Children's Book Award, Junior Books category, 2006.
• Great Lakes Great Books Award (Michigan), Grades 2-3, 2004.
• ALA Notable Children's Book, 2003

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[E]

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• Elementary Grade
• 420

Intended audience source

Lexile

LC call number

SF440.15

LC item number

.B53 2002

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 0
• 5

Reading level

• 3.8.
• 3.3.

Study program name

• Accelerated Reader
• Reading Counts!

Target audience

primary