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McKernan, Victoria

 
9780449816554: The Devil's Paintbox
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ISBN 10: 0449816559 ISBN 13: 9780449816554
Editorial: EMBER, 2013

Sinopsis

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.

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Acerca del autor

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

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Editorial
EMBER
Año de publicación
2013
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0449816559
ISBN 13 
9780449816554
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
384
Contacto del fabricante
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9780375837500: The Devil's Paintbox

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0375837507 ISBN 13:  9780375837500
Editorial: Alfred a Knopf, 2009
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