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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.

They've never faced danger before. Now they're alone-and they have no choice. Every summer, Toughboy and his younger sister stay at their isolated family fish camp on the Yukon River. There, away from their Alaskan village, they help their parents catch and smoke salmon. But that was before their mother died and everything changed. This year, their father brings them back to the camp, but before he can set things up, he vanishes. No one knows ...

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Excerpt from William Henry Widgery, Schoolmaster: A Descriptive and Critical Account of His Life, Work and CharacterMr. H. B. Garrod, the Secretary of the Teachers' Guild. Mr. Henry Bradley's kindness in sending me a written expression of his opinion on Widgery's capacity as a philologist is acknowledged in the body of the work. Such a statement, under the circumstances, is as valuable as it is generous. To Mrs. Bryant I am indebted for most v...

William Henry Widgery, Schoolmaster - a descriptive and critical account of his life, work and character is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers...

Excerpt from William Henry Widgery, Schoolmaster: A Descriptive and Critical Account of His Life, Work and Character Mr. H. B. Garrod, the Secretary of the Teachers' Guild. Mr. Henry Bradley's kindness in sending me a written expression of his Opinion on Widgery's capacity as a philologist is acknowledged in the body of the work. Such a statement, under the circumstances, is as valuable as it is generous. To Mrs. Bryant I am indebted for most...

It's the 1920s, and Bo was headed for an Alaska orphanage when she won the hearts of two tough gold miners who set out to raise her, enthusiastically helped by all the kind people of the nearby Eskimo village.Bo learns Eskimo along with English, helps in the cookshack, learns to polka, and rides along with Big Annie and her dog team. There's always some kind of excitement: Bo sees her first airplane, has a run-in with a bear, and meets a myste...

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.

Nearly 150 years ago, when Alaska belonged to Russia and was called Russian America, Erinia Pavaloff lived at the Nulato odinochka on the banks of the Yukon River. Owned by the Russian American Company, an odinochka was a trading post where native people traded their furs for precious Russian supplies. Erinia is always busy -- learning to make fur clothing, emptying buckets of snow into water barrels, helping Mamma, gathering spruce boughs ...

When Deet's father is jailed for using drugs, Deet learns that prison is not what he expected, nor are other people necessarily the way he thought they were.

Ever since five-year-old Bo can remember, she and her papas have lived in the little Alaskan mining town of Ballard Creek. Now the family must move upriver to Iditarod Creek for work at a new mine, and Bo is losing the only home she's ever known. Initially homesick, she soon realizes that there is warmth and friendship to be found everywhere . . . and what's more, her new town may hold an unexpected addition to her already unconventional famil...

The death of their drunken father strands ten-year-old Toughboy and his younger sister at a remote fishing cabin on the Yukon River near Ruby, Alaska, where they spend a summer trying to cope with dwindling food supplies and hostile wildlife.

Eleven-year-old Toughboy and his younger sister must survive the harsh Alaskan winter at a friend's winter trapping camp. Sequel to "Toughboy and Sister".

The author of "The Year of Miss Agnes" delivers a strong and accessible novel that sheds light on the tumultuous experience of having a parent in jail, and gives insight into the everyday lives of the prison inmates and the stories behind what brought them there.

Recently orphaned, Toughboy and Sister live with Natasha, an elderly, cantankerous Athabascan Indian. In late fall she has them all flown to camp in a bush plane to teach the children how to trap and deal with the Alaskan winter. When an old miner is seriously injured and Natasha sets off for help, the children find their spirits pushed to the limits. Sequel to Toughboy and Sister.

Starker-Sohn und Schwester gehören zum Stamm der Athapasken-Indianer. Den Sommer verbringen sie mit ihren Eltern in einem Lager weit oben am Fluss, um Lachse für den langen Winter zu fangen. Doch in diesem Sommer kommt alles anders. Plötzlich sind die beiden Geschwister ganz auf sich allein gestellt. Der Alltag in der Wildnis wird zu einem Erlebnis und der Bär wagt sich immer näher an das Sommerlager heran ...

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.