![]() If Jimmy doesn't pass it he will have to leave school next year to do a man's work with his father and brother, all his dreams of being a scientist come to nothing. Grandma says it's hutlaanee, bad luck, to talk about the test, but they can't help it. Join us Augfor our third virtual antiquarian book fair Preregister now for Biblio.live and get 10 to use at the fair. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. The village's anxiety increases as the school year goes on, waiting for Jimmy's test. Find Minuk by Hill, Kirkpatrick at Biblio. And she's brought a movie projector so the village people can see movies for the first time. She's brought boxes of books and soon everyone in town is reading something from the school bookshelves. The whole village is part of Miss Agnes' school. Miss Agnes starts Jimmy on a rigorous program of study for the test and Fred and the others learn right along with him. But how long will she stay? Miss Agnes has arranged for her extraordinarily gifted student, Jimmy Sam, to go away to a college prep school "outside." If he can pass the test. ![]() ![]() And she's brought a cat, the first they've ever seen. ln the sequel, Miss Agnes and the Ginger Tom, their wonderful teacher is back. ![]() Ten-year-old Fred tells why Miss Agnes is the best teacher they've ever had in their one-room school, and different in every way. In the previous book, The Year of Miss Agnes, it's 1948 and a new teacher comes to teach in the tiny Athabascan village on the Koyukuk River in Alaska. Twelve-year-old Minuks traditional Eskimo way of life is changed forever in 1892 with the arrival of Christian missionaries. ![]()
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