SOJO
Memoirs of a Reluctant Sled Dog
With help from
Pam Flowers
Illustrations by
Bill Farnsworth
To Doug Pfeiffer, who always gave me a fair chance.
Text © 2016 by Pam Flowers
Illustrations © 2016 by Bill Farnsworth
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission of the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Flowers, Pam, author. | Farnsworth, Bill, illustrator.
Title: Sojo : memoirs of a reluctant sled dog / by Pam Flowers ; illustrated by Bill Farnsworth.
Description: Portland, Oregon : Alaska Northwest Books, [2016] | Summary: A sled dog on an Alaskan dog team relates her exciting adventures, including when explorer Pam Flowers and the team set out alone across the Arctic.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016006798 (print) | LCCN 2016027305 (ebook) | ISBN 9781943328536 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781943328543 (e-book) | ISBN 9781943328550 (hardbound)
Subjects: LCSH: Sled dogs—Juvenile fiction. | CYAC: Sled dogs—Fiction. | Dogs—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ10.3.F667 So 2016 (print) | LCC PZ10.3.F667 (ebook) | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016006798
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Contents
Mischief, Adventure, and Sled Dog School
Introduction
My name is Sojo (that’s SO-jo, not SO-ho). For much of my life I was a sled dog on an Alaskan dog team and I had lots and lots of exciting adventures. This is my
