This book takes place in 1948. Fredricka (Fred) lives in Athabascan and goes to school in a small schoolhouse. It always smells like fish and every teacher they have always leaves after a year. Then they get a new teacher. Her name is Miss Agnes. Miss Agnes can’t smell so she doesn’t mind that it always stinks of fish. She is an interesting teacher and teaches the kids things they never learned before.
The Year Of Miss Agnes
By Kirkpatrick Hill
Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
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Grades 4 - 8 | Grades 2 - 5 | O | 4.5 | 18744 |
Fred doesn't know what to make of Miss Agnes Sutterfield. She sure is a strange one. No other teacher throws away old textbooks and reads Greek myths and Robin Hood. No other teacher plays opera recordings, talks about "hairy os," and Athabascan kids becoming doctors or scientists. No other teacher ever said Fred's deaf older sister should come to school, too. And no other teacher ever, ever told the kids they were each good at something. Maybe it's because Miss Agnes can't smell anything, let alone fish, that things seem to be all right. But then Miss Agnes says she's homesick and will go back to England at the end of the year. Fred knows what this is about: Just when things seem to be good, things go back to being the same.
How Fred and her friends grow with Miss Agnes is the heart of this story, told with much humor and warmth by Fred herself This is a story about Alaska, about the old ways and the new, about pride. And it's a story about a great teacher who opens a door to the world -- where, once you go through, nothing is ever the same again.
Book Reviews (2)
It's about a teacher in Alaska from England who comes to teach at a school that doesn't have a teacher. It is kind of sad.