# Bo at Ballard Creek

**Author:** Kirkpatrick Hill
**Grade range:** Grades 3–6
**First published:** 2013
**Page count:** 226
**ISBN-13:** `9780805098945`
**ISBN-10:** `0805098941`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/bo-at-ballard-creek
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

An unforgettable story of a little girl growing up in the exhilarating time after the big Alaska gold rushes. Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction Bo's family is not the usual, ordinary sort of family, because she didn't get it in the usual, ordinary way. She was headed for a lonely Alaska orphanage when she won the hearts of two tough gold miners who set out to raise her, enthusiastically helped by the other miners, the good-time girls, and all the kind people of the nearby Eskimo village on the Koyukuk River. Bo learns Eskimo along with English, is involved in the lives of her friends at Ballard Creek ,helps in the cookshack, learns to polka, rides along with Big Annie and her dog team. And there's always some kind of excitement : a bi-plane landing, the first bulldoze

## Where this book is assigned

### Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction

- **recommended** · 3rd grade — [source: Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction winners, via Wikipedia — 2014 Scott O'Dell Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_O%27Dell_Award_for_Historical_Fiction)
- **recommended** · 4th grade — [source: Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction winners, via Wikipedia — 2014 Scott O'Dell Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_O%27Dell_Award_for_Historical_Fiction)
- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction winners, via Wikipedia — 2014 Scott O'Dell Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_O%27Dell_Award_for_Historical_Fiction)
- **recommended** · 6th grade — [source: Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction winners, via Wikipedia — 2014 Scott O'Dell Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_O%27Dell_Award_for_Historical_Fiction)

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