Silver

by Gloria Whelan and Stephen Marchesi Gloria Whelan

Book Overview

Stepping Stone Books. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394996119
• ISBN13: 9780394996110
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
• Length: 58 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Superior Book

There is a girl Rachel that lives in Alaska. Her dad is a sled dog racer. But when the best dog on the team has puppies she wants one. She gets one after months of begging and she names it Silver. One day she forgets to close the gate to Silvers pen and he escapes. Rachel comes home later and notices he's gone so she runs to find him. An hour later she notices it's getting dark but she also notices some foot prints in the snow. She follows them and realizes she's tracking down a wolf and that the wolf has babies. The wolf starts coming and it's with Silver. She picks him up and runs. As she is a couple feet away from the door her mom opens it and she lets her in. Later, her dad comes home and she tells him all abut the adventure with Silver. I think this book was so intense but yet so peaceful and loving and so good that I could read it again and again. The best part of this book is when Silver runs away because it's so touching because if I lost my dog in the middle of a snow storm I know I would feel terrible and so sad. I think the worst part of this book is when they just talk about how there dad is going to race his dogs because the main events are basically about losing Silver but other wise the author did really good job. I would recommend this book because the story is told like no one could tell it.

Good

My grandchildren didn't say anything positive or negative about this book. It seemed good, but couldn't give it five stars.

Silver is a great dog racing adventure with a happy ending

In this book, there is a girl named Rachel who is very happy because she tried to get a sled dog, and gets a puppy. She names it Silver because it looks silver, and has one eye brown and one eye blue. She trains him so well that he becomes a racing dog. Silver was lost and she went to go look for him, and found wolf tracks that led to a hole where a baby wolf was trapped and dead. Silver was behind the dead wolf and he was safe, but he scared the big wolf that was about to hurt Rachel. The dad said that the big wolf wanted Silver to replace the dead wolf. In the end, her dad wins a race and Silver grows up to be a good, strong racing dog. My favorite part is when her dad wins the race, because it is the happiest part. It was really scary when Rachel saw the dead wolf. This book might be a little too scary for first graders, but it is really exciting for older kids, especially in the parts when her dad wins and when she gets a puppy. This was a great book and I'm happy I read it. By JG.

Silver

Silver is a book that takes place in Alaska. 10 year old Rachle is the daugher of a musher. All that Rachle wants is a huskey. One of the dogs gave birth to a puppy named Silver. One day she left the gate open. Then she gose looking for him finds him by a tree. Then get caught in a blizzard. I think it was a good book and really cool. Sit at edge of your seat excitement. However if I were the athor of this book I would change the ending,because didn't match the middle. By:Savannah

It was very fun to read

This book is about a girl whose dad is in the Iditarod race in Alaska. But he can't race with his lead dog because she is going to have puppies... so he gets the second lead dog. The musher's daughter wants a dog and on her birthday the first lead dog has puppies and because it's her birthday, she gets to keep one of the puppies. She names it Silver. I think you would like to read this book because it's about a little girl and how she gets a puppy. It is a chapter book. And it has lots of action. The pictures are black and white drawings. When I'm older, I want to go in the Junior Iditarod.