The call of the wild
The story opens with Buck, a powerful 140-pound St. Bernard-Scotch Collie mix, living happily in California's Santa Clara Valley as the pampered pet of Judge Miller and his family in the summer of 1897. One night, Judge Miller's assistant gardener Manuel, desperately needing money, steals Buck. At first, Buck assumes that Manuel is simply walking him, but Manuel brings Buck directly to the College Park station and sells him to a stranger. Buck is shipped to Seattle. Put in a crate, he is starved and ill-treated. When released, Buck attacks his overseer who teaches Buck the "law of the club", hitting Buck until he is sufficiently cowed (but the man shows some kindness after Buck stops attacking). Buck is sold to two French-Canadian dispatchers from the Canadian government, François and Perrault, who take him to Alaska. They train him as a sled dog, and drive him through the Klondike region of Canada. From his teammates, he quickly learns to adapt to survive cold winter nights and the pack society. A rivalry develops between Buck and the lead dog, Spitz, a vicious and quarrelsome white husky. Buck eventually kills Spitz in a fight and becomes the lead dog.

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The call of the wild
The story opens with Buck, a powerful 140-pound St. Bernard-Scotch Collie mix, living happily in California's Santa Clara Valley as the pampered pet of Judge Miller and his family in the summer of 1897. One night, Judge Miller's assistant gardener Manuel, desperately needing money, steals Buck. At first, Buck assumes that Manuel is simply walking him, but Manuel brings Buck directly to the College Park station and sells him to a stranger. Buck is shipped to Seattle. Put in a crate, he is starved and ill-treated. When released, Buck attacks his overseer who teaches Buck the "law of the club", hitting Buck until he is sufficiently cowed (but the man shows some kindness after Buck stops attacking). Buck is sold to two French-Canadian dispatchers from the Canadian government, François and Perrault, who take him to Alaska. They train him as a sled dog, and drive him through the Klondike region of Canada. From his teammates, he quickly learns to adapt to survive cold winter nights and the pack society. A rivalry develops between Buck and the lead dog, Spitz, a vicious and quarrelsome white husky. Buck eventually kills Spitz in a fight and becomes the lead dog.

Wikipedia contributors. "The Call of the Wild." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
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The call of the wild

The call of the wild

by Jack London
The call of the wild

The call of the wild

by Jack London

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The story opens with Buck, a powerful 140-pound St. Bernard-Scotch Collie mix, living happily in California's Santa Clara Valley as the pampered pet of Judge Miller and his family in the summer of 1897. One night, Judge Miller's assistant gardener Manuel, desperately needing money, steals Buck. At first, Buck assumes that Manuel is simply walking him, but Manuel brings Buck directly to the College Park station and sells him to a stranger. Buck is shipped to Seattle. Put in a crate, he is starved and ill-treated. When released, Buck attacks his overseer who teaches Buck the "law of the club", hitting Buck until he is sufficiently cowed (but the man shows some kindness after Buck stops attacking). Buck is sold to two French-Canadian dispatchers from the Canadian government, François and Perrault, who take him to Alaska. They train him as a sled dog, and drive him through the Klondike region of Canada. From his teammates, he quickly learns to adapt to survive cold winter nights and the pack society. A rivalry develops between Buck and the lead dog, Spitz, a vicious and quarrelsome white husky. Buck eventually kills Spitz in a fight and becomes the lead dog.

Wikipedia contributors. "The Call of the Wild." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781078778305
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date: 02/19/2020
Pages: 120
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.25(d)
Age Range: 7 - 11 Years

About the Author

John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.
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