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Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2002-01-05

Year of Miss Agnes (Reprint)

Year of Miss Agnes (Reprint)

Aladdin Historical Fiction

Kirkpatrick Hill, Author

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9780689851247

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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.
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A teacher transforms a rural Alaskan classroom with stories, songs, and dignity. A warm celebration of learning, literacy, and the lasting power of belief in every child.

Keywords and Themes: Change • Dignity • Education • Encouragement • Growth • Historical • Hope • Imagination • Juvenile Fiction • Literacy • Native American • School & Education • Storytelling • Teaching • United States - 20th Century

Readability • 4.6

Age Range • 8-12

Pages • 115

Subjects • Schools • Teachers • Athapascan Indians • Indians of North America • Alaska

Categories • Juvenile Fiction | Native American • Juvenile Fiction | School & Education • Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 20th Century

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?
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