Avalanche Dog Heroes: Piper and Friends Learn to Search the Snow (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781632171733)

Junior Library Guild Selection
2020 Towner Book Award Finalist
Oregon Spirit Award Honor Book

Follow Piper the border collie and her canine classmates through a season of avalanche rescue training. As they learn the skills they need to become snow rescue dogs, you'll learn about the work these amazing canines do and about avalanche safety.

Avalanche Dog Heroes is a nonfiction picture book illustrated with stunning, adorable photography that draws parallels between kids' experiences in elementary school and the training days of the avalanche rescue dogs of Crystal Mountain, Washington State's largest ski resort, located in the Cascade Range.

Follow along with Piper, a friendly border collie who came to the mountain as a smart but timid shelter dog, terrified by everything, as she confidently heads off to school on a chairlift to meet her canine classmates. Over a season they romp together through the snow, learning and practicing the skills they need to be avalanche rescue dogs and earn their rescue certification.

You'll also learn the warning signs and conditions that cause an avalanche, the four types of avalanches, and the basics of avalanche safety.

Author: Elizabeth Rusch
ISBN-10: 1632171732
ISBN-13: 9781632171733
Publisher: Little Bigfoot
Language: English
Published: 10/16/2018
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.70h x 10.90w x 0.40d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.9
Point Value: 1
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 501131 / Avalanche Dog Heroes


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 07/01/2018 pg. 90
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2018
Publishers Weekly 09/03/2018