Ice Dogs

A gripping survival-and-adventure story starring courageous teen heroine and her amazing sled dogs in the Alaskan wilderness. Victoria Secord, a fourteen-year-old Alaskan dogsled racer, loses her way on a routine outing with her dogs. With food gone and temperatures dropping, her survival and that of her dogs and the mysterious boy she meets in the woods is entirely up to her. AGES: 10 + AUTHOR: Terry Lynn Johnson lives in Whitefish Falls, Ontario where for ten years she owned a team of eighteen Alaskan Huskies. She's an award winning member of the Outdoor Writers of Canada and The Dog Writers Association of America - recently winning the Maxwell Medallion of Excellence. When she's not writing, Terry enjoys hiking, snowshoeing, kayak expeditioning, and she occasionally tortures herself in a canoe race. As one of only nine female Conservation Officers in Ontario, Terry understands the challenges and possibilities for women in the outdoors. She recently had her first novel, called 'Dogsled Dreams'. www.terrylynnjohnson.com SELLING POINTS: ? The author is a musher herself and writes with convincing, authentic detail about dog sledding. ? The lure of the exotic and the wild: this is a world and a sport that will seem fascinatingly different to most. ? The Alaskan tundra comes to life in Johnson's descriptions of Spruce River, a fictionalised Nenana, Alaska. ? The pull of the genuine bond between dog and teen. ? Great appeal to survival adventure fans, an area in publishing that is not overcrowded and has perennial appeal. ? Refreshing role reversal -- as in The Hunger Games, it is the girl's survival skills that save them REVIEWS: A page-turner full of white-knuckle action. . . . Readers will be riveted until the end." ? Publishers Weekly