Dogsong

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Dogsong
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AuthorGary Paulsen
IllustratorRuth Paulsen
LanguageEnglish
Genre Novel
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Publication date
1985
Publication placeUnited States
Published in English
1985
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pages177 pp
ISBN 0-02-770180-8
OCLC 11210809
LC Class PZ7.P2843 Do 1985

Dogsong is young adult novel by Gary Paulsen and a Newbery Honor winner. [1]

Contents

Plot

Inspired by the Eskimo shaman Oogruk, Russel Susskit takes a dog team and sled to escape the modern ways of his village and to find his own "song" of himself, hating the sound of snowmobiles and his father's coughing in the morning. He travels across ice floes, tundra, and mountains, haunted along the way by a dream of a long-ago self whose adventures parallel his own. Reality melds with the dream when he finds an Eskimo girl named Nancy, who has run away from her village after becoming pregnant. Circumstances require him to provide for himself and the girl in a harsh and unforgiving land. Russel sets out looking for food, for Nancy and himself, after Nancy gives birth to a still-born baby.

Characters

See also

References

1.http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/book/dogsong

2 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/760848.Dogsong

3.http://www.pluggedin.com/book-reviews/dogsong/

  1. Fry, Erin M. (December 15, 2020). "Q & A with Gary Paulsen". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved April 9, 2021.