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School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2013 | Grades 5-8
Gr 4–7—In 1924, Arvid and Jack, two blacksmiths who work in mining communities in the Alaska territory, adopt an abandoned baby girl. They name her Bo, and, when readers meet her, they will be immediately grabbed by her infectious personality. One moment she helps Jack, who becomes a camp cook, make doughnuts, and the next minute she runs in a three-legged race. When a speechless boy shows up in the camp, five-year-...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on June 1, 2013
The disarmingly forthright tone is set right at the start of this chapter book when we meet Bo, a little girl who lives with her papas (yes, that's plural) in a small, almost-worked-out gold-rush town in 1920s Alaska. Papa Jack and Papa Arvid explain to Bo that her mother was Mean Millie, a "good-time girl" who unceremoniously dropped baby Bo into Arvid's arms and left town on the riverboat. "Sometimes mamas don't stick aroun...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
