description: Newbery Honor Book His people no longer use dog sleds, instead they use snowmobiles; but Oogruk still has an old team of sled dogs, and they've grown fat and lazy. Russell wonders what it was like to run with the dogs, to look at the snow and ice and hear only the swish of runners along the icy crust, to be like his ancestors. To answer his thoughts, he turns to Oogruk who tells him of the old days and the songs of his people. But hearing about it is not enough, so Russell learns to run the dogs and soon takes off across the tundra, replicating journeys that have been made for thousands of years.
language: English
title: Dogsong
titlecomplete: Dogsong
genres: Realistic Fiction, Childrens, Coming Of Age, Animals, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Survival, Adventure, Fiction, Dogs
ratings_count: 6343
places: Alaska
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
publisher: Thorndike Press