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This is a fun, dramatic and informative story about two boys and their mother who go on a trip to Finland. The huskies who pull sleds are the big source of attraction for the lads. And they're going to be sledding across snowy wastes, frozen lakes and wooded wilderness all day... Yaay!

Meanwhile back in Dublin, the boys have an older half-sister who waits with their dad, for her mother is coming back from America to see her for the first time in many years.

The boys work with the dogs and take care of them, learning all they can. This stands them in good stead when their mother's sled vanishes on a trek and the boys look out at the night and snow, just knowing it is up to them to find her....

I recommend this short book to anyone, boys, girls, adults. You should know however that huskies do not make good pets for urban families; they are a working, surviving type of breed, not a highly domesticated one.


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Wilderness Roddy Doyle Books Reviews

This is an exciting and easy read for adolescents, 2 boys who go on a vacation in the wilds of Norway who get involved in a sled dog rescue. I ordered it for some low readers in my school who are interested in survival type stories. Upon reading it, I found the parallel story going on back home a little heavy (mature) for my young readers. The story is good, but knowing the low reading level, I expected that it would be more appropriate for younger kids.
Ten-year-old Tom Griffin and his older brother, twelve-year-old Johnny, live in Dublin, Ireland, with their parents and a teenaged half-sister, Grainne. Grainne has not seen or heard from her mother since she was a baby, and now her mother is coming from America for a visit. Grainne is nervous about the visit. Will seeing her mother heal the hurt of being abandoned by this woman?

The boys' mother, Sandra, decides to take the boys somewhere else during the visit by Grainne's mother, and arranges a holiday in Finland for herself and the boys. They are going to have a grand adventure. This story is told in alternating chapters as Tom and Johnny become acquainted with sled dogs and their handler and then go off into the wilderness on an exciting dog sled ride to a remote lodge. And as Grainne nervously waits for the arrival of her birth mother.

The boys are excited about the chance to help feed and water the sled dogs, and to help with camp chores. They are having a grand time, until their mother disappears. Her lead dog is a rogue who decides to go his own way, and she becomes lost in the cold, snowy uninhabited forest. It is dark, and the sled tips over and injures Sandra. She can't get back on the sled, or get the dogs under control.

The boys decide to take a team of dogs and sled and search for their mother on their own, and they sneak out of the lodge and harness the dogs. It's dark and cold, with deep snow, and the trail is not clear, but their lead dog seems to know where he is going...or does he?

Tween readers can relate to the realistic characters and their emotions as Roddy Doyle tells this dramatic story in sparse, simple language, while keeping the tension high. With the rowdy rambunctious boys and their adventure in Finland, the frantic search for their mother, and the angst of a teenaged girl meeting the mother who abandoned her, there is something for everyone in this exciting story.

Reviewed by Grandma Bev
Divided into six chapters (Mountains, Deserts, Polar regions, Plateaux and plains, Wetlands and swamps, Forests and jungles) book ended by an introduction and index, Inevitably, this relatively small picure book can only provide an appreciation of such a broad subject as wilderness, but it does that very well.

The mountains chapter looks at the Himalayas including Everest, the Andes, the Canadian Rockies, the Alps including Mont Blanc, two of the three highest mountains in Africa and the Australian Blue Mountains. All of these are far bigger than anything that the UK has to offer, but pictures of Ben Nevis, Snowdon and Scafell Pike (the highest mountains in Scotland, Wales and England respectively) are not hard to find if you look in the right places.

The deserts chapter looks specifically at sandy deserts, as the polar regions are the subject of a separate chapter. Covering Africa, Asia, Australia and South America, the pictures are certainly impressive. The polar regions cover both the Arctic and Antarctic. Of the two, I have always been more interested in the Antarctic, but the pictures of the ptarmigan and the tundra in summer bloom illustrate that the Arctic has its appeal too, although both are far too cold for to ever want to visit even if I could afford to/

The plateaux and plains chapter looks at some remote regions as well as the East African savannah (definitely the most interesting wilderness of this type as far as I'm concerned) and the American prairie. Of course, plains cover much of Europe but you won't find them here because the vast majority of the wilderness has long since disappeared

The wetlands and swamps chapter covers the spectacular Okavana delta in Africa, the Everglades in Florida and the Pantanal in South America, as well as a picture each from Ireland, Estonia and Siberia.

It comes as no surprise that South America and Africa feature strongly in the forest and jungle chapter, but the cold non-Arctic regions of North America , Russia and Scandinavia are also featured. As are some mangroves and a great picture of monkeys in Borneo.

It took me far longer to write this review than to read the book, but while it doesn't cover anything in depth, it is a handy book that is enjoyable to look at occasionally, and maybe remind me of some subjects that I really ought to study in more detail.
This is a fun, dramatic and informative story about two boys and their mother who go on a trip to Finland. The huskies who pull sleds are the big source of attraction for the lads. And they're going to be sledding across snowy wastes, frozen lakes and wooded wilderness all day... Yaay!

Meanwhile back in Dublin, the boys have an older half-sister who waits with their dad, for her mother is coming back from America to see her for the first time in many years.

The boys work with the dogs and take care of them, learning all they can. This stands them in good stead when their mother's sled vanishes on a trek and the boys look out at the night and snow, just knowing it is up to them to find her....

I recommend this short book to anyone, boys, girls, adults. You should know however that huskies do not make good pets for urban families; they are a working, surviving type of breed, not a highly domesticated one.