The Year of Miss Agnes

Miss Agnes plays the children a record of the King's Choir church, from England. She explains that her father was a mathematics teacher at Cambridge, and she used to listen to this choir when she was little. Fred thinks that she will be happy to go home.

Now that they have finished Robin Hood, Miss Agnes begins to read Greek myths to the children. The ones about monsters are their favorites. After that, they read fairy tales, which remind Fred of the stories older people tell at fish camp, particularly about animals. When the children tell this to Miss Agnes, they start exchanging stories. She reads them a fairy tale, and the children tell her a native story, though Fred thinks they don't sound as good in English.

Miss Agnes puts a Christmas tree up in the school, which Toby Joe and Plasker have chopped down. They weren't successful on their first try but succeeded on the second. The children decorate the tree and look at pictures of Christmas trees from other countries. They also learn Christmas songs.

At Christmas, the villagers who were out trapping come home; some go to church in Allakaket, while the remaining ones stay in town to see the children put on A Christmas Carol.