"Jack and Annie travel back in time to 1925 Nome, Alaska, where they meet Balto, the famous sled dog, and help save the town from illness"-- Provided by publisher.

Painter and Ugly, two sled dogs who are inseparable best friends, are put on different teams for the Junior Iditarod, but they manage to find their way back to one another for the big race.

"Christina and Grant and a couple of other real (cold!) kids head north to Alaska just in tie for the Iditarod Trail dogsled race. They discover themselves in hot pursuit of a runaway team with a renegade musher in a mystery that needs solving very fast"--p.4 of cover.