| Toughboy and Sister Contributor(s): Hill, Kirkpatrick (Author) |
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ISBN: 0689839782 ISBN-13: 9780689839788 Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books OUR PRICE: $9.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2000 Annotation: After their mother's death, Toughboy and Sister are left in the care of their unreliable, alcoholic father until he drinks himself to death. The children are then left to fend for themselves in their remote cabin. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - United States - Native American - Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure - General - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 800 |
| Physical Information: 0.32" H x 5.1" W x 8.02" (0.33 lbs) 128 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 6444 Reading Level: 4.8 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 3.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: After Momma's death, Toughboy and Sister find themselves in the care of Father, who spends more time in the local bar than looking after his children. With help from the women in the village, though, Toughboy and Sister get through the rest of the winter without Mamma. Finally, spring comes: time to make the long-awaited annual trip to the fish camp with Father. Once they arrive at their cabin, things start to look up for the children -- the fish camp is always fun, and Father seems to be in good spirits. Maybe their fractured family will be all right. Or not. When Father goes to town and drinks himself to death, Toughboy and Sister are suddenly left to fend for themselves in the Alaskan wilderness. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hill, Kirkpatrick: - Kirkpatrick Hill lives in Fairbanks, Alaska. She was an elementary school teacher for more than thirty years, most of that time in the Alaskan "bush." Hill is the mother of six children and the grandmother of eight. Her three earlier books, Toughboy and Sister, Winter Camp, and The Year of Miss Agnes, have all been immensely popular. Her fourth book with McElderry Books, Dancing at the Odinochka, was a Junior Library Guild Selection. Hill's visits to a family member in jail inspired her to write Do Not Pass Go. |