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Title: Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaska Wilderness by Robert Specht, Anne Purdy ISBN: 0-312-80570-5 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: April, 1976 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $8.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (29 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A great read, even for those who seldom do.
Comment: I teach high school literature in a suburban school in the midwest. I bought Tisha for my daughter, then read it myself. It is a captivating read. There are few "challenges" for even students who read slowly, yet the story and heroics are attractive even to sophisticated readers. For years, I have offered "extra credit" to students who will read a novel of my selection over Chirstmas. In recent years, I offered books by Farley Mowat and The Catcher in the Rye. Kids usually have great intentions, take books, but return from the holliday having not finished the book. Usually I would have about 10 out of 25 who finished the book/s and liked it. This year I gave out Tisha. 35 out of 50 finished it. I had trouble getting the books back because kids had given them to their parents to read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Robert Specht is my grandfather
Comment: For my 13 birthday I was given a copy of "Tisha". I loved it! Not just because grandfather wrote it but because it is an inspiring story. The librarian and my teacher were very surprised to find out who I am. Everyone loves this book. It was written a long time ago, but is still read by adults and their children. When people travel to Chicken Alaska they buy the book and then they write a fan letter. My grandfather died 3 years ago. I am proud of his work.
Rating: 5
Summary: Auntie Anne
Comment: This is a great account of how early life in Alaska truly was. My father mined with Fred Purdy from the late 30's till the war broke out and he enlisted. After he married my Mother they moved back to Chicken and my Mother became a close friend to Anne. While Fred and Anne adopted other children over the years they always had a house full of everyone else's children too, a sign of their loving and open nature. The flavor of this book reflects the bias of the "Outsiders" to the local natives that still runs uneasily under a more modern and progressive time.
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Title: Mrs. Mike by Benedict Freedman, Nancy Freedman ISBN: 0425103285 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: July, 1994 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Two Old Women by Velma Wallis ISBN: 0060975849 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 13 July, 1994 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska : The Story of Hannah Breece by Hannah Breece ISBN: 0679776338 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 28 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Search for Joyful by Benedict Freedman, Nancy Freedman ISBN: 0425188337 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun by Velma Wallis ISBN: 0060977280 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 29 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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