The Year of Miss Agnes -- Kirkpatrick Hill, Paperback

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?

Author: Kirkpatrick Hill
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Published: 05/01/2002
Pages: 115
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780689851247
Audience: Ages 4-8

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.5
Point Value: 3
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 43754 / Year of Miss Agnes

Award: Golden Sower Award - Nominee
Award: Sasquatch Award - Nominee
Award: Flicker Tale Children's Book Award - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Booksense '76 Childrens Fall02 08/01/2002 pg. 1

About the Author
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 books Toughboy and Sister, Winter Camp, and The Year of Miss Agnes have all been immensely popular. Her fourth book, Dancing at the Odinochka, was a Junior Library Guild Selection.