Race against death by Seymour ReitMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
While this is a brief YA account, it is an exciting recounting of heroic sled dog Balto who led his team on the final leg of the 1925 serum run to Nome, in which diphtheria antitoxin was transported from Anchorage, Alaska, to Nenana, Alaska, by train and then to Nome by dog sled to combat an outbreak of the disease. In the subzero, hurricane conditions planes were dismantled and Nome was frozen in with 10% of the population dead or suffering from the disease. As a 20s new story it so gripped the nation, Balto is memorialized with a statue of him in Central Park (New York City), as told in this book
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