Buck, a ranch dog stolen from a California estate and sold into the Klondike sled teams, has to relearn everything he knows before the Yukon kills him.
Jack London's short novel covers a great deal of ground for its length: the brutality of the gold-rush freight trails, the shifting order inside a dog team, the bond that grows between Buck and John Thornton, and the pull of instinct that finally draws him toward the wolf packs. The Fingerprint Publishing paperback runs to 136 pages, a size that suits one long sitting or a week of bedtime reading, and the prose stays plain enough for school readers while holding the weight adult readers return for.
At its core:
• A 136-page paperback of London's Yukon novel
• Follows Buck from a sunlit California ranch to frozen freight trails
• Short, physical chapters that move at speed
• Sits naturally beside White Fang and other survival fiction
Recommended for students, animal-story readers and anyone building a classics shelf, published by Fingerprint Publishing and available at Boipoka.