Miss Agnes and the Ginger Tom
Kirkpatrick Hill was raised in Fairbanks,Alaska, received her teacher training from Syracuse University in New York and was an elementary school teacher for more than thirty years, most of that time in the Alaskan bush.  All of her previous books are set in Alaska: Toughboy and Sister, Winter Camp, The Year of Miss Agnes, Minuk, Dancing in the Odinochka and Do Not Pass Go. She currently lives in Fairbanks in the winter and the family home on the Yukon for some of the summer.  She is the mother of six children and has nine grandchildren and  two great- grandchildren.