{"product_id":"avalanche-dog-heroes-piper-and-friends-learn-to-search-the-snow","title":"Avalanche Dog Heroes: Piper and Friends Learn to Search the Snow","description":"Junior Library Guild Selection!\n2020 Towner Book Award Finalist\nOregon Spirit Award Honor Book\n\nFollow Piper the border collie and her canine classmates through a season of avalanche rescue training. As they learn the skills they need to become snow rescue dogs, you'll learn about the work these amazing canines do and about avalanche safety.\n\nAvalanche Dog Heroes is a nonfiction picture book illustrated with stunning, adorable photography that draws parallels between kids' experiences in elementary school and the training days of the avalanche rescue dogs of Crystal Mountain, Washington State's largest ski resort, located in the Cascade Range.\n\nFollow along with Piper, a friendly border collie who came to the mountain as a smart but timid shelter dog, terrified by everything, as she confidently heads off to school on a chairlift to meet her canine classmates. Over a season they romp together through the snow, learning and practicing the skills they need to be avalanche rescue dogs and earn their rescue certification.\n\nYou'll also learn the warning signs and conditions that cause an avalanche, the four types of avalanches, and the basics of avalanche safety.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1632171732\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1632171732.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Rusch, Elizabeth\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41596853977146,"sku":"DBV.1632171732.VG","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1632171732-0.jpg?v=1786762475","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/avalanche-dog-heroes-piper-and-friends-learn-to-search-the-snow","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}