Snow Dog

The steel-gray Husky Chiri was just a puppy when he watched the black wolf kill his mother and two brothers. Left alone inthe snow-covered land oof the coyote, caribou, and gizzly, Chiri learned to fend for himself, to hunt and survive by his keen instinct and natural intelligence. Now full-grown and full of courage and cunning, Chiri forms a tentative bond with trapper Link Stevens, the only human he's ever learned to trust. But the Husky knows that one day soon he will have to face the black wolf again--and this time only one of them will survive.

Jim Kjelgaard was an American author of books for young adults. He was the author of more than 40 novels, the most famous of which was his 1945 book Big Red, which was adapted into a Disney film of the same name in 1962. He died in 1959.