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London, Jack. The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics). New York: Aladdin, 2003.
Dagger
Aurora High School Library
Cost: FREE
Genre: adventure

As the Klondik Gold Rush started in the fall ok 1897, Buck, the dog, was stolen from his upper class home, by the Gardner Manvel, Buck proves to be the strong sled dog Manuel thought, and was sold from person to person, he ended up on Fancois and Perrault’s sled dog team. Here Buck became the lead dog, but was treated poorly. Not getting enough food or rest, were only the littlest of their troubles. Once again he was sold, this time to John Torhton. John was different, he cared about his sled dogs, unlike all the others, but Buck ran away from John, into the dangers of the wild. In the wild Buck struggled to make the impossible, house dog to wild wolf transition.

In this book, Jake London, uses a lot of references to the weather and to the events happening in society. That’s why it’s important to know that the gold rush was going on up in Alaska. If he had not explained this in his text then we could not know why the need for sled dogs was high. When reading, you got to read between the lines to get the full meaning of the book. He uses a lot of interpretation in this book and I think that made the book a lot better.

I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read adventures stories. This book showed travels thought-out the northern part of the U.S.A. it talked about how they adapted to their surroundings, although I didn’t like this book that much, I think someone who likes adventure stories would like it.