Synopses & Reviews
This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students.Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence.
Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension.
Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension.
Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words.
Synopsis
When men find gold in the frozen north of Canada, they need dogs - big, strong dogs to pull the sleds on the long journeys to and from the gold mines. Buck is stolen from his home in the south and sold as a sled-dog. He has to learn a new way of life - how to work in harness, how to stay alive in the ice and the snow . . . and how to fight. Because when a dog falls down in a fight, he never gets up again.
About the Author
Jack London (1876-1916) was born into a poor family in San Francisco. During his short life he was many things - sailor, factory-worker, gold-miner in the Yukon, traveller, journalist and writer. Call of the Wild and White Fang (which is also about a dog) are his most famous books.