Dogsong

Dogsong by Gary Paulsen is 177 pages.  I didn't really enjoy this book.  Dogsong is about a Eskimo boy named Russel.  Russel wants to be a man and find his own song.  He goes to a old man named Oogruk for advice.  Soon after this Oogruk dies, so Russel takes his dogsled team out across the ice. A while later, he finds a pregnant Eskimo girl close to death.  He learns that her name is Nancy and she had run away but her snow machine had run out of fuel.  After Nancy gets better, they continue on his journey together because Nancy doesn't want to go back to where she lives.  Once they continue on their journey they run out of food and there is no caribou in sight so Russel leaves Nancy to go look for food.  Then, he comes across a bear.