SOLVED. YA about a sickly girl who has to move north to cold weather so she can breath. [s]

[Brenda]

I read book in mid-1980's. Girl moves north to live with an uncle because of her bad lungs or something and discovers a world of husky dogs and sleds... maybe a romance too? Time frame may take place in early 1900's maybe. Ninth grade english teacher assigned the book to me to read.

[Rainbowheart]

The Adventures of the Wilderness Family?

[Cheryl A]

Mrs. Mike by Benedict Freedman

In 1907, Katherine Mary O'Fallon left Boston for Calgary, Canada to stay with her Uncle John, as the doctors said that the cold dry climate would be good for her pleurisy. She arrives in the worst winter in fifty years and is quickly introduced to the harsh life in the newly settled land.

[``Laurie]

Mrs. Mike was the first book I thought of too.

[Brenda]

That sounds like the book! Thank you so much!!! I've wanted to read it again ever since i left highschool and now that i'm almost 50, i thought it was time to do it now or never.