| Game on Yukon!: Mystery of the Dawson City Nuggets and the 1905 Stanley Cup Contributor(s): Halliday, Keith (Author) |
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ISBN: 1440145482 ISBN-13: 9781440145483 Publisher: iUniverse OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2009 Annotation: Aurore, Yves, Kip and the gang are back, this time fighting to save the Stanley Cup! It's 1905 and the Dawson City Nuggets have challenged legendary One-Eyed Frank McGee and the Ottawa Silver Seven for hockey's most famous trophy. It just seems like more fun to the hockey-crazed kids of Dawson City, until mysterious accidents start to knock out the Nuggets' stars ... one by one. Yves and Kip join Joe "King of the Klondike" Boyle and the Nuggets as stick boys. They follow the team on its staggering four-thousand-mile trek to the Cup. The team suffers one mishap after another as they travel by dogsled, bike, train and ship across frozen rivers, impenetrable forest and deadly sixty-below-zero cold snaps. Can the Yukon kids find out what's happening before it's too late? Was Captain Bennet's sled accident really an accident? What did Malamute Mike mean about the "Sheriff's Curse?" And who can explain the mysterious disappearance of the Stanley Cup itself? |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 6" W x 9" (0.66 lbs) 200 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Aurore, Yves, Kip and the gang are back, this time fighting to save the Stanley Cup It's 1905 and the Dawson City Nuggets have challenged legendary One-Eyed Frank McGee and the Ottawa Silver Seven for hockey's most famous trophy. It just seems like more fun to the hockey-crazed kids of Dawson City, until mysterious accidents start to knock out the Nuggets' stars ... one by one. Yves and Kip join Joe "King of the Klondike" Boyle and the Nuggets as stick boys. They follow the team on its staggering four-thousand-mile trek to the Cup. The team suffers one mishap after another as they travel by dogsled, bike, train and ship across frozen rivers, impenetrable forest and deadly sixty-below-zero cold snaps. Can the Yukon kids find out what's happening before it's too late? Was Captain Bennet's sled accident really an accident? What did Malamute Mike mean about the "Sheriff's Curse?" And who can explain the mysterious disappearance of the Stanley Cup itself? |