the story of a young teacher in the Alaska wilderness
Hobbs, Anne
1977
The author recounts a year of teaching on the Alaska frontier, where the white adults resent her teaching the Indians as well as her relationship with a half-Indian man.
Amanda Pepper, an English teacher at an exclusive private school, investigates a series of pranks that range from trivial to potentially deadly, but her investigation is disrupted when the students rise up against the administrators.
Cared for in a series of temporary homes where young women are taught mothering skills, winsome orphan toddler Henry captures the hearts of program director Martha and each of his temporary mothers while hoping for a permanent home.
Twenty-five-year-old Aria Jackson feels she has finally overcome the rage and grief that tore her family apart after a car accident killed her father and sister when Aria was just nine years old, but when Aria learns she is expecting a child of her own, she finds the old pain and uncertainty threatening her happiness once again.