![]() This book may be recommended for ages 12 through 112! I just finished reading it again, this time to my 13 year old daughter. (Just as in Tisha's life, my love and I had to wait 12 years until we were able to get married.) In addition to all this, a pure romance blooms that nearly breaks your heart. It has all the elements to keep the reader hooked: adventure, living with hardship through a frigid Alaska winter, dogsled races, a student who perseveres despite a reading handicap, the heroic teacher who loves her students and despite all, bravely stands up to a community with a rigid backwards way of thinking (racism.) Anne does what she knows is the right thing despite the personal cost of disapproval by the locals in power. ![]() ![]() I re-read this book every few years and never grow tired of it. One of my top shelf favorite books of all time and a true story which takes place in Alaska in the late 1920's!
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