The book I am searching for is a young adult novel I read in the 1980's about a family relocating to Alaska. They lived in an isolated cabin, walked to a lone general store to get supplies and place an order for clothing and household items through a Sears Catalog. They ordered in summer for a delivery of winter items, items didn't arrive until Spring. A teenage girl with at least one sibling, mom gets depressed, and either dad or brother or both get lost and possibly killed. One chapter talks about them laying in supplies for winter and the girl sleeps on pallets of canned food. It was a paperback book, white cover, the title had something to do with Alaska without saying Alaska, referencing the 24 hours of sun / dark I think.
Category Archives: YA (grades 7-9)
351A: Children’s book about life in the future
350R: Daughter of Lord Leads Resistance to Keep Father in Power (Solved!)
350O: Slave Taught to Read Punished for Teaching Daughter
We’re looking for a children’s or young adult chapter book wherein a wounded white soldier recovering at a slave owner’s home falls in love with a black slave there and teaches her to read. She then shares that knowledge with her daughter, and when caught she faces brutal punishment.
350E: Supposedly Heroic Girl Dies in Apartment House Fire (Solved!)
Looking for a 1970s ya fiction book about a girl who died in an apartment house fire. Everyone thought that she was a hero because she alerted the other tenants to the fire so they could get out. Actually, it was her brother who had done the alerting while she went back to her apartment to get her shoe box of paper doll families. This was a much darker sequel to a book about a brother, a sister and another girl. Think the title may have been something like “The truth about (girl’s name)”, but not positive. Don’t remember author but know I read it right after it came out somewhere between 1969 and 1980.
349Q: The Four Elementals and the Earth Children Raised in World with Magic
349P: Forest Girl Falls in Love with City Boy
349J: Strange Spaceship Builder in the Backyard
The book I cannot remember is from late grade school or Junior high (7th grade). It was a spaceship, I think in the backyard with a strange builder or helper to the kids building or traveling on it.
347Z: YA/Juvenile nonfiction book about world issues, spiral bound, came with a bag of real rice!
I’m looking for a YA/Juvenile nonfiction book about world issues that I read in the 1990s. It was spiral bound, full colour, maybe 5×8, and came with two zippered pouches of real rice at the back. The rice was part of a world-hunger learning activity in the book, where the reader spun a spinner…