ANNE HOBBS WAS ONLY NINETEEN IN 1927 WHEN SHE CAME TO HARSH AND BEAUTIFUL ALASKA. RUNNING A RAMSHACKLE SCHOOLHOUSE WOULD EXPOSE HER TO MORE THAN JUST THE ELEMENTS. AFTER SHE ALLOWED NATIVE AMERICAN CHILDREN INTO HER CLASS AND FELL IN LOVE WITH A HALF-INUIT MAN, SHE WOULD LEARN THE MEANINGS OF PREJUDICE AND PERSEVERANCE, IRRATIONAL HATRED AND UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. PEOPLE GET AS MEAN AS THE WEATHER, SHE DISCOVERED, BUT THEY WERE ALSO CAPABLE OF GREAT GOOD. AS TOLD TO ROBERT SPECHT, ANNE HOBBS’S TRUE STORY HAS CAPTIVATED GENERATIONS OF READERS.