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The Call of the Wild and Selected Short Stories
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The Call of the Wild and Selected Short Stories
by Jack LondonSET FEATURES:
o Each foreword is written by a well-known author and sets the tone for the reader's experience in each book
o Student guide at the end of each book
o Each is original and unabridged
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3/1/07 Library Media Connection
If used as required reading in classroom sets, these 17 titles would work beautifully. The stories are ac
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Jack London
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Jack London
While researching Jack London, biographer Daniel Dryer uncovered an amazing truth - that London's real life was just as rich and exciting as the stories and characters he created. Equally adept in writing as he was at thrill-seeking, London left school at age eleven to begin his lifelong courtship of adventure. He worked as a seal hunter, an oyster pirate, and a factory worker. And by the time of the Klondike gold rush, he was well on his way to becoming one of the world's most popular writers.
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Interest Level:
4-7
Lexile Framework:
290L
Grade Level Equivalent:
2.3
Guided Reading Level:
M
Age:
9-12
Genre:
Adventure, Classics, Historical Fiction
Subject:
Animals, Westward Expansion, Courage and Honor, Survival
This classic wilderness adventure explores the thin line that separates tame from wild — within animals and humans alike. Buck is an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, and part Scotch shepherd, with wolf blood in his ancestry. He is enjoying his comfortable life as a family pet in California when dog traffickers, who are meeting the demand for sled dogs in the Alaskan gold rush, steal him. The harsh winter is like nothing he has ever experienced, and each day with the sled dog team is a very real struggle for survival. Pushed to the limit, Buck finds instincts he didn't know he had — primordial urges deep within him are being awakened. Buck is passed from owner to owner, including a brutal threesome that lacks the resources to survive on their own on the Alaskan frontier. They beat Buck within an inch of his life. When John Thornton saves Buck, he is grateful, and for a time it seems that his domesticated side has won. But when Thornton is killed, Buck heeds the call: he returns to the wild, eventually becoming leader of a wolf pack and the legendary "Ghost Dog" of the Klondike.
In re-creating the world of the frontier, Jack London drew from his own experiences in the Klondike during the gold rush of 1897, and he vividly depicts the harsh conditions in which man and beast were forced to survive. Considered his masterpiece, The Call of the Wild is a gripping story that will resonate as strongly with today's readers as it did when it was first published nearly 100 years ago.
