Written by: Ashley Rhodes-Courter New York: Atheneum, 2008; 304 pages. “It’s not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable”. Ashley Rhodes-Courter shared this quote from Moliere in front of a crowded room on Capitol Hill when she was only in the ninth grade. Ashley had survived the [...]
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Three Little Words
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Eagle Blue: A Team, A Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska
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Written by: Michael D’Orso New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006; 323 pages. A remote arctic village in Alaska is the home of a remarkable high school basketball team who, above all odds manages to win and win a lot. The name of the village is Fort Yukon and the majority of the village’s inhabitants are [...]
