Stone Fox - Softcover

Gardiner, John Reynolds

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0395732476 ISBN 13: 9780395732472

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin School, 1997

Synopsis

In spite of tremendous odds, a ten-year-old boy and his dog are determined to win a dogsled race and the five-hundred-dollar prize.

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Review:

"Gardiner's description of the race and sudden climax (based on legend) is fast-paced and enveloping."--" School Library Journal"

From the Back Cover:

There's just no stopping little Willy. Determined to keep their farm going -- and to give his ailing grandfather a reason to live -- the ten-year-old boy hitches his dog, Searchlight, to the plow and harvests the whole potato crop.

Now little Willy needs five hundred dollars to pay off ten years' back taxes, or the farm will be taken away from them. Dauntless as ever, he stakes everything on one wild hope: that he and Searchlight can outrun the best dogsled racers in the country -- including the legendary Indian, Stone Fox. But the huge mountain man is every bit as intent on winning the big prize money as little Willy is. And he and his five beautiful Samoyeds haven't lost a race yet....

Based on a Rocky Mountain legend, John Reynolds Gardiner's story -- like its hero, little Willy -- has all the ingredients of a winner, right down to the unforeseen drama at the finish line.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin School
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0395732476
• ISBN 13: 9780395732472
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Sewall Marcia