Sweet home alaska, paperback/carole estby dagg

Description If Laura Ingalls Wilder had lived in Alaska, she might have written this novel .

-- Kirkus Reviews Its 1934, and times are tough for Trips family after the mill in their small Wisconsin town closes, leaving her father unemployed.

Determined to provide for his family, he moves them all to Alaska to become pioneers as part of President Roosevelts Palmer Colony project.

Trip and her family are settling in, except her mom, who balks at the lack of civilization.

But Trip feels like shes following in Laura Ingalls Wilders footsteps, and she hatches a plan to raise enough money for a piano to convince her musical mother that Alaska is a wonderful and cultured home.

Her sights set on the cash prize at the upcoming Palmer Colony Fair, but can Trip grow the largest pumpkin possible--using all the love, energy, and Farmer Boy expertise she can muster? About the Author Carole Estby Dagg (www.

caroleestbydagg.

com) also wrote the middle-grade historical novel The Year We Were Famous .

She was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and has lived in Washington, Idaho, and British Columbia.

She has degrees in sociology, library science, and accounting.

Her real-life adventures include tiptoeing through King Tuts tomb, sand boarding the dunes of western Australia, riding a camel among the Great Pyramids, paddling with Manta rays in Moorea, and smelling the penguins in the Falkland Islands.

She is married with two children, two grandchildren, a husband, and a bossy cat who supervises her work.

She splits her writing time between her study in Everett, Washington, and a converted woodshed on San Juan Island.