Author: Victoria McKernan
Publisher: Ember
ISBN: 0449816559
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
When almost-16-year-old Aiden Lynch and his little sister, Maddy, first meet trailrider Jefferson J. Jackson, they're eating clay and hunting grasshoppers on the remains of their family's drought-ravaged Kansas farm. In short, the two orphans are starving to death, so when this man Jackson offers an escape—a 2000-mile journey across the roughest country in the world—Aiden knows it's their only choice. They say there are a hundred ways to die on the Oregon Trail, and the long wagon journey is broken only by catastrophe: wolf attacks, tornadoes, rattlesnakes, deadly river crossings, Indians, and the looming threat of smallpox, "the devil's paint." But with the sky a cornflower blue and the air sweet with new prairie grass, Aiden and Maddy and a hundred fellow travelers move forward with a growing hope, and the promise of a new life in the Washington Territory. Adventure-filled and historically accurate, Victoria McKernan captures both the peril and stunning beauty of the frontier West in an epic American story at once sweeping and intimate, heartbreaking and hopeful.
The Devil's Paintbox
Author: Victoria McKernan
Publisher: Ember
ISBN: 0449816559
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
When almost-16-year-old Aiden Lynch and his little sister, Maddy, first meet trailrider Jefferson J. Jackson, they're eating clay and hunting grasshoppers on the remains of their family's drought-ravaged Kansas farm. In short, the two orphans are starving to death, so when this man Jackson offers an escape—a 2000-mile journey across the roughest country in the world—Aiden knows it's their only choice. They say there are a hundred ways to die on the Oregon Trail, and the long wagon journey is broken only by catastrophe: wolf attacks, tornadoes, rattlesnakes, deadly river crossings, Indians, and the looming threat of smallpox, "the devil's paint." But with the sky a cornflower blue and the air sweet with new prairie grass, Aiden and Maddy and a hundred fellow travelers move forward with a growing hope, and the promise of a new life in the Washington Territory. Adventure-filled and historically accurate, Victoria McKernan captures both the peril and stunning beauty of the frontier West in an epic American story at once sweeping and intimate, heartbreaking and hopeful.
Publisher: Ember
ISBN: 0449816559
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
When almost-16-year-old Aiden Lynch and his little sister, Maddy, first meet trailrider Jefferson J. Jackson, they're eating clay and hunting grasshoppers on the remains of their family's drought-ravaged Kansas farm. In short, the two orphans are starving to death, so when this man Jackson offers an escape—a 2000-mile journey across the roughest country in the world—Aiden knows it's their only choice. They say there are a hundred ways to die on the Oregon Trail, and the long wagon journey is broken only by catastrophe: wolf attacks, tornadoes, rattlesnakes, deadly river crossings, Indians, and the looming threat of smallpox, "the devil's paint." But with the sky a cornflower blue and the air sweet with new prairie grass, Aiden and Maddy and a hundred fellow travelers move forward with a growing hope, and the promise of a new life in the Washington Territory. Adventure-filled and historically accurate, Victoria McKernan captures both the peril and stunning beauty of the frontier West in an epic American story at once sweeping and intimate, heartbreaking and hopeful.
The Devil's Paintbox
Author: Victoria McKernan
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780375937507
Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 1865, fifteen-year-old Aiden and his thirteen-year-old sister Maddy, penniless orphans, leave drought-stricken Kansas on a wagon train hoping for a better life in Seattle, but find there are still many hardships to be faced.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780375937507
Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 1865, fifteen-year-old Aiden and his thirteen-year-old sister Maddy, penniless orphans, leave drought-stricken Kansas on a wagon train hoping for a better life in Seattle, but find there are still many hardships to be faced.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1708
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1708
Book Description
The Devils Will Get No Rest
Author: James B. Conroy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982168692
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
"In a secret, no-holds-barred, ten-day debate in a Moroccan warzone, protected by British marines and elite American troops, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, George C. Marshall, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George S. Patton Jr., Sir Alan Brooke, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Sir Harold Alexander, and their military peers questioned each other's competence, doubted each other's vision, and argued their way through choices that could win or lose [World War II]"--
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982168692
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
"In a secret, no-holds-barred, ten-day debate in a Moroccan warzone, protected by British marines and elite American troops, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, George C. Marshall, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George S. Patton Jr., Sir Alan Brooke, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Sir Harold Alexander, and their military peers questioned each other's competence, doubted each other's vision, and argued their way through choices that could win or lose [World War II]"--
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1688
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1688
Book Description
Journal - The Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art
Author: Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Illinois, Images of the Landscape
Author: Willard Clay
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780942394580
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780942394580
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Supreme Book of Mankind
Author: James Gore King McClure
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Earth Science
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Book Review Index - 2009 Cumulation
Author: Dana Ferguson
Publisher: Book Review Index Cumulation
ISBN: 9781414419121
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
Book Description
Book Review Index provides quick access to reviews of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media representing a wide range of popular, academic and professional interests. The up-to-date coverage, wide scope and inclusion of citations for both newly published and older materials make Book Review Index an exceptionally useful reference tool. More than 600 publications are indexed, including journals and national general interest publications and newspapers. Book Review Index is available in a three-issue subscription covering the current year or as an annual cumulation covering the past year.
Publisher: Book Review Index Cumulation
ISBN: 9781414419121
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
Book Description
Book Review Index provides quick access to reviews of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media representing a wide range of popular, academic and professional interests. The up-to-date coverage, wide scope and inclusion of citations for both newly published and older materials make Book Review Index an exceptionally useful reference tool. More than 600 publications are indexed, including journals and national general interest publications and newspapers. Book Review Index is available in a three-issue subscription covering the current year or as an annual cumulation covering the past year.