Sweet home Alaska

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The work Sweet home Alaska represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Pike County Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

Sweet home Alaska

Statement of responsibility

Carole Estby Dagg

Creator

• trueDagg, Carole Estby
• Dagg, Carole Estby

Author

• Dagg, Carole Estby

Subject

• Family life -- Alaska -- Fiction
• trueEleven-year-old girls
• trueFamilies -- Alaska
• Families -- Alaska -- Juvenile fiction
• trueFrontier and pioneer life -- Alaska
• Frontier and pioneer life -- Alaska -- Fiction
• Frontier and pioneer life -- Alaska -- Juvenile fiction
• trueHistorical fiction
• trueMoving to a new state
• Moving, Household -- Fiction
• Moving, Household -- Juvenile fiction
• truePreteen girls
• true1930s -- 1930 -- 1939
• trueAlaska -- History -- 1867-1959
• Alaska -- History -- 1867-1959 -- Fiction
• Alaska -- History -- 1867-1959 -- Juvenile fiction
• trueDepression era (1929-1941) -- 1929 -- 1941
• Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction
• Depressions -- 1929 -- Juvenile fiction
• trueDepressions -- 1929-1941

Genre

• Fiction
• trueHistorical fiction
• Juvenile fiction

Language

eng

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

Tone

• trueHomespun
• trueFeel-good

Character

• trueWell-developed

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

870

Intended audience source

Lexile

LC call number

PZ7.D138

LC item number

Swe 2016

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

870

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 4
• 8

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

pre adolescent