Bo at Iditarod Creek
By Kirkpatrick Hill and LeUyen Pham
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Ever since five-year-old Bo can remember, she and her papas have lived in the little Alaskan mining town of Ballard Creek. Now the family must move upriver to Iditarod Creek for work at a new mine, and Bo is losing the only home she's ever known. Initially homesick, she soon realizes that there is warmth and friendship to be found everywhere . . . and what's more, her new town may hold an unexpected addition to her already unconventional family.
As with Bo at Ballard Creek, this stand-alone sequel is a story about love, inclusion, and day-to-day living in the rugged Alaskan bush of the late 1920s. Full of fascinating details, it is an unforgettable story.
Kirkpatrick Hill
Kirkpatrick Hill lives in Fairbanks, Alaska. She was an elementary school teacher for more than thirty years, most of that time in the Alaskan bush. Hill is the mother of six children and the grandmother of eight. Her books Toughboy and Sister, Winter Camp, and The Year of Miss Agnes have all been immensely popular. Her fourth book, Dancing at the Odinochka, was a Junior Library Guild Selection.
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Reviews for Bo at Iditarod Creek
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great details on gold mining in Alaska. Could possibly be a series as Bo and her fathers have to leave Ballard Creek in the end.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I'm a sucker for frontier stories, and I like it even better when they really teach me something about a time or a place. These books are so upbeat and curiously cheerful that I just adored them. I love the pragmatic responses of the papas to Bo's upbringing -- the rules are so very firm, but never applied with anger. I love the partnership tradition, which strikes me as a uniquely gold-rush sort of thing, where there were so many men living out on their own over such a long time -- handy, too, that it leaves an ambiguous role modeling for today's same sex partnerships. Mostly, I just love the storytelling, the history, the quirky and fascinating characters.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A delightful book about little Bo, her two adoptive dads, and their friends of Eskimos and miners in the waning days of the Alaskan gold rush. The details of mining life in a small remote town and daily Eskimo culture enrich these stories that are perfect for a family or classroom read-aloud. Everyone is neighborly and pitches in, and Bo and all the kids are raised by a multicultural village. I love LeUyen Pham's illustration work and her illustrations here are no exception, adding charm, personality and affection.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fiction: Chapter Book Hill, Kirkpatrick Bo of Ballard Creek. MacMillan, 2013. 288p. Intermediate. This is a warm, delightful story of a little girl named Bo growing up in northern Alaska in the 1920”s, right after the Gold Rush. Two big-hearted ex-miners, Jack and Arvid, raise Bo with the help of the whole village. Bo has many adventures and learns about life, families, and love in this lyrical, quick-paced narrative tale. AK: Ask children if they have heard of the Gold Rush. What do they know about it? Have they been to an old Gold Rush town?
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Personally, I thought the book was enjoyable but without a distinct plot or overarching issue. It seemed as though the book was one large introduction to a story that never unfolded.The book could be used in the classroom in the context of rural communities, diversity, family structure, or 1920s history.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Like "Little House in the Big Woods" only in Alaska.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is extremely endearing, and one of the best middle readers I've picked up in a while. Bo is a little girl who lives in a small mining town in Alaska in the 1920s. The book is essentially a series of winsome anecdotes about various things that little kids get up to in a small mining town in Alaska ... and it's just so nicely written. It's been compared a lot to the Little House books, and I think that's fairly understandable in a few ways. The author, a native Alaskan, has said that some of the episodes are based on family stories. There are a lot of "this is how things worked in Ye Olden Days" explanations of what's going on, handled in a good way - they're straightforward, a kid can understand them, and they support the story. In terms of reading level, it feels right about par with Little House in the Big Woods/Little House on the Prairie, so it would work well as a read aloud for kids starting about age 4, and realistic for slightly older kids who are reading on their own. Unlike the Little House books, the Eskimo members of the community get a lot of airtime, and come across as individual people as opposed to a vague group of Eskimos.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hill has written her most delightful children's book about Alaska. Bo has been "adopted" by two very unlikely parents. Her Papa Jack is a black cook at an Alaskan mine. Her Papa Arvid is a Swedish miner. Bo unconventional family includes not only her papas, but the other miners and the Eskimo village of Ballard Creek. Fans of The Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder will see a bit of Laura in Bo. Best of all readers will see that families can be unconventional but if there is love, there is a family.