Bo at Ballard Creek

It’s the 1920s,and Bo was headed for an Alaska orphanage when she won the hearts of two tough gold miners who set out to raise herenthusiastically helped by all the kind people of the nearby Eskimo village. Bo learns Eskimo along with Englishhelps in the cookshacklearns to polkaand rides along with Big Annie and her dog team. There’s always some kind of excitement: Bo sees her first airplanehas a run-in with a bearand meets a mysterious lost little boy. Bo at Ballard Creek by Kirkpatrick Hill is an unforgettable story of a little girl growing up in the exhilarating time after the big Alaska gold rushes.