Secondhand Summer - Walker, Dan L.
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A Hatchet meets The Outsiders coming-of-age novel about a twelve-year-old boy who moves from a remote Kenai Peninsula homestead to Alaska's largest city after the death of his father. The story takes place in the summer of 1965 when our hero, Sam Barger, explores a wilderness of a different kind in the crowded poverty of Anchorage just after the 1964 earthquake.

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A Hatchet meets The Outsiders coming-of-age novel about a twelve-year-old boy who moves from a remote Kenai Peninsula homestead to Alaska's largest city after the death of his father. The story takes place in the summer of 1965 when our hero, Sam Barger, explores a wilderness of a different kind in the crowded poverty of Anchorage just after the 1964 earthquake.
Autorenporträt
Dan Walker is a homesteader¿s son who grew up to become a teacher and a writer. He has worked as a chef, innkeeper, merchant seaman, fisherman, and carpenter. Drawn from these varied experiences are blogs, essays, professional articles, and fiction published in magazines and literary journals such as the Journal of Geography, Alaska Magazine, and We Alaskans. Dan has more than thirty years in education and was named Teacher of the Year for Alaska in 1999. His consulting work has taken him throughout Alaska from Anchorage to Barrow and Perryville to Sitka where he works with principals, teachers, and students and is rewarded by experiencing the remote Alaska that few people get to know.