“Little Pete made a picture of his dad’s trapline cabin. Fred is pitch-perfect in her observations of the village residents. These young geographers learn about the world on a huge map that covers one whole schoolhouse wall. Math is a lesson on how not to get cheated when selling animal pelts.
The children learn to read using handmade books that are about their own village and lives: winter trapping camps, tanning moose hides, fishing, and curing the catch, etc.
Miss Agnes’s one-room schoolhouse is a progressive classroom, where the old textbooks are stored away first thing upon her arrival. Ten-year-old Fred (Fredrika) matter-of-factly narrates this story of how a teacher transformed the school. In 1948 the unorthodox Miss Agnes arrives to teach the children of an Athabascan Indian Village in remote Alaska.
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