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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dagg, Carole Estby.
Sweet home Alaska / Carole Estby Dagg.
pages cm
Summary: In 1934, eleven-year-old Terpsichore’s father signs up for President Roosevelt’s Palmer Colony project, uprooting the family from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska, where Terpsichore refuses to let rough conditions and first impressions get in the way of her grand adventure.
[1. Depressions—1929—Fiction. 2. Frontier and pioneer life—Alaska—Fiction. 3. Family life—Alaska—Fiction. 4. Moving, Household—Fiction. 5. Alaska—History—1867–1959—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.D138Swe 2016 [Fic]—dc23 2015016755
ISBN 978-0-399-17203-8
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Jacket credit: Jacket art © 2016 by Erika Steiskal
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