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Sweet home Alaska

In 1934, eleven-year-old Terpsichore's father signs up for President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project, uprooting the family from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska, where Terpsichore refuses to let rough conditions and first impressions get in the way of her grand adventure.

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Main Author: Dagg, Carole Estby (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), [2016]
Subjects:
Depressions > 1929 > Juvenile fiction.
Adventure stories > Juvenile.
Frontier and pioneer life > Alaska > Juvenile Fiction.
Family life > Alaska > Juvenile Fiction.
Moving, Household > Juvenile fiction.
Alaska > History > 1867-1959 > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:In 1934, eleven-year-old Terpsichore's father signs up for President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project, uprooting the family from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska, where Terpsichore refuses to let rough conditions and first impressions get in the way of her grand adventure.
Physical Description:298 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:9780399172038
0399172033
Author Notes:Carole Estby Dagg (www.caroleestbydagg.com) also wrote the middle-grade historical novel The Year We Were Famous . She was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and has lived in Washington, Idaho, and British Columbia. She has degrees in sociology, library science, and accounting. Her real-life adventures include tiptoeing through King Tut's tomb, sand boarding the dunes of western Australia, riding a camel among the Great Pyramids, paddling with Manta rays in Moorea, and smelling the penguins in the Falkland Islands. She is married with two children, two grandchildren, a husband, and a bossy cat who supervises her work. She splits her writing time between her study in Everett, Washington, and a converted woodshed on San Juan Island.

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