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Author Recounts Her Life-Changing Experience Teaching on a Remote Alaskan Island
Shishmaref, Alaska is a remote village located on a small island in the Chukchi Sea, just north of the Bering Strait and 5 miles from the mainland. But when Genét Simone accepts her very first teaching position there, she has no idea what she’s in for — not until the small bush plane she’s on comes in for a landing over a “misshapen lima bean” sitting in the middle of the ocean.
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