| The Year of Miss Agnes Reprint Edition Contributor(s): Hill, Kirkpatrick (Author) |
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ISBN: 0689851243 ISBN-13: 9780689851247 Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books OUR PRICE: $6.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2002 Annotation: Told in a young girl's simple, honest voice, this is the touching story aboutAlaska, the old ways and the new, and about a special teacher who touches thelives of everyone she meets. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - United States - Native American - Juvenile Fiction | School & Education - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 99046912 |
| Lexile Measure: 790 |
| Series: Aladdin Historical Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5" W x 7.6" (0.20 lbs) 115 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 43754 Reading Level: 4.5 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 3.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A year they'll never forget Ten-year-old Frederika (Fred for short) doesn't have much faith that the new teacher in town will last very long. After all, they never do. Most teachers who come to their one-room schoolhouse in remote, Alaska leave at the first smell of fish, claiming that life there is just too hard. But Miss Agnes is different -- she doesn't get frustrated with her students, and she throws away old textbooks and reads Robin Hood instead For the first time, Fred and her classmates begin to enjoy their lessons and learn to read and write -- but will Miss Agnes be like all the rest and leave as quickly as she came? |
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. |