Sweet Home Alaska

This is such a fun book! It's a glimpse into the past, that highlights the present. It's written in an easy language, and it paints a vivid portrait of a life we all want to live. Thank you Carol! I'm waiting for Grandmother and Mr. Crawfords story now! Please finish it....

Fantastic storyline, great characters, really history to follow outside of the book, recipes to try, geography to introduce....overall as a homeschooling mommy I love this book! My kids beg for more chapters every time we read it! I don’t want this book to end! We got it to follow the Read Aloud Revival book club and are so excited to read more from this author!

My 10 year old son still lets me read to him before he dozes off to sleep. I chose this book . He was sure he wouldn’t like it. Very quickly he was “into it”. I couldn’t make a big deal over that as he has to play it cool. Important to know: it starts with just kid girl characters (accept for a baby boy)… but never fear, be patient, the boys will come. I think that’s when it got even BETTER for my son. Highly recommend this historical fiction book. We had great spring off research and conversations about some of the famous figures you will come across in this story.

From my 10-year-old: This book is set during the great depression. It's like American Girl and centers around a 12-year-old girl who's family is forced to move to Alaska when they can't afford to stay in their home of Little Bear Lake, Wisconsin. Leaving her best friend Ilene behind, Terpsichore Johnson is hesitant about life in Alaska. But she makes two new friends, Mendel and Gloria, and things turn out okay. But Terpsichore's mother, Cleo, wants to move back from Alaska, and it will take Terpsichore's greatest plan yet to convince her to stay. This is an amazing read. I've heard it twice, and there are plenty of likeable characters and fun plotlines in different chapters, although the book follows one loose story.

I love the nature and friendship in this book😁 It is so perfectly written and I mean I don't really have much to say but overall this is an excellent book😍 This is one of my favorites😁

I love reading books that are inspired by historical events and the people who created the pioneer American spirit. This is the story of brave families who create a town in the Alaskan wilderness, when given a piece of land to farm during the Great Depression of the 1930s. It’s remarkable what they did within a little over a year including creating a library, building a hospital and growing vegetables six feet wide!

We read this book aloud for family read aloud. We all enjoyed the story and have recommended it to others.

A lovely middle-grade read about a the gold rush families that relocated to Palmer, Alaska during the Great Depression. Their new reality is a shock - almost everyone is living in makeshift tents, swatting away hoards of hungry insects and (gasp!) there is no library that our main character, Terpsichore (Terp-sick-o-ree (after one of the three muses)), is firmly attached. She makes two good friends who found the Palmer's library society and begins a book drive. When funds grow short, Terpsichore plans to win the grand prize at the fair for growing a giant pumpkin. An award worthy historical fiction with beautiful language and imagery to sink your mind into the dense trees. Meticulously researched and presented by award-winning author (and librarian) Carole Estby Dagg.

This book was so fun. We did it with my daughter’s book club and they all enjoyed it (11-13 year olds). They all have read and enjoyed the little house on the prairie series and we loved all of the reference to the books. Made it even more interesting when we realized that some of the people and places were based on fact.

This story is about a family from Little Bear Lake, Wisconsin, that moved to Alaska as settlers during the Great Depression. President Roosevelt started the Matanuska Colony Project to bring families there. Terpsichore Johnson and her family stayed in a tent until their house was built. She and her friends started a library by collecting money for books. Gloria set up a beauty salon fixing ladies hair, Mendel collected soda bottles, and Terpsichore advertised for babysitting, but ended up washing diapers. She planted giant pumpkins for a contest at the fair. In Alaska,vegetables grow bigger. My favorite part is when Terpsichore grew a pumpkin, feeding it with milk like in “Farmer Boy’’, and also selling copies of her cookbook to buy a piano for mother,so she would want to stay in Alaska. I like the book because I love cooking, gardening and adventure. It was interesting and funny.