The Devil's Paintbox - Couverture souple

McKernan, Victoria

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0449816559 ISBN 13 : 9780449816554

Editeur : Ember, 2013

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Shackleton's Stowaway was VICTORIA McKERNAN's first novel for young adults. She is also the author of four novels for adults.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ember
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0449816559
• ISBN 13: 9780449816554
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
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• Personne responsable: non disponible