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...
A Smithsonian Notable Book for Children
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year "Genius." --The New York Times Book Review A beautiful repackage marking the twentieth anniversary of the beloved, award-winning novel...
It's 1948 and ten-year-old Fred has just watched her teacher leave -- another in a long line of teachers who have left the village because the smell of fish was too strong, the way of life too hard. Will another teacher come to the small Athabascan village on the Koyukuk River...