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Author
Series
Secret refuge volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When a disastrous decision by the trainmaster forces Jesselynn Highwood and her companions to separate from the wagon train, she races back to Fort Laramie to find a guide to take them to Oregon. But the guide has a far different plan, and following her heart, Jesselynn agrees to join him, her ragtag band in tow.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
1859: Mrs. Jacob Klein has a husband, children, and a warm and comfortable home in California. No one knows how she came to be out West thirteen years ago. It was a tale of tragedy, mishaps, and unthinkable choices-- yet also sacrifice, courage, and a powerful, unexpected love. 1846: On the outskirts of Cincinnati, wagons gather by the hundreds, readying to head west to California. Among the throng is a fifteen-year-old girl eager to escape her abusive...
Author
Series
Secret refuge volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When Jesselynn Highwood discovers that her destination in Missouri has been ravaged, she sets out on the Oregon Trail, while her "sister Louisa has taken on the daunting task of smuggling desperately needed supplies for the hospital in Richmond."--Cover.
7) Angel train
Author
Series
Wagon wheel volume 4
Publisher
B & H Pub. Group
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
The mid-1800s tale introduces Charity Morgan, a beautiful yet businesslike young heroine whose devout religious community is losing its Pennsylvania homestead to the economic recession. To survive and stay together, the members plan to form a wagon train to Oregon where free land is aplenty. The only catch is that no wagon master is better equipped to lead them safely out West than inmate Casey Tremayne and his band of fellow felons. After Charity's...
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1954, Annie Wilkins, a sixty-three-year-old farmer from Maine, embarked on an impossible journey. She had no relatives left, she'd lost her family farm to back taxes, and her doctor had just given her two years to live--but only if she "lived restfully." He offered her a spot in the county's charity home. Instead, she decided she wanted to see the Pacific Ocean just once before she died. She bought a cast-off brown gelding named Tarzan, donned...
Author
Series
Oregon Trail volume 5
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1849. You and your family are at the halfway mark on your 2,000-mile journey West. You've set up camp near South Pass, Wyoming. A powerful storm strikes. Your wagon train must ford the river immediately. When crossing the wild water, the current pulls you in and separates you from your family. You wake up on a riverbank--lost and disoriented. You have no other choice by to find your way and survive on your own. Lucky for you, you meet Tatsa,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Douglas Deeds, a fifteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his travels by wagon train as a member of the ill-fated Donner Party, which became stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-47.
Author
Series
Mercy Falls volume 3
Language
English
Description
In 1910, New York socialite Olivia resists an arranged, socially advantageous marriage. The mysterious death of her sister Eleanor in Northern California is an unhappy but convenient excuse to go West. On the way, she is nearly drowned, and decides to hide her identity when she arrives in Mercy Falls.
13) Wagons ho!
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Compares the experiences of Jenny Johnson and Katie Miller as their families move from Missouri to Oregon, one in 1846 and one in 2011.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Young Jesse and his family are with a wagon train traveling from Indiana to Oregon when they stop to celebrate the Fourth of July, but Jesse is too young to go hunting with the men so he comes up with his own contribution to the festivities.
Author
Series
Oregon Trail volume 6
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Keep your wagon train alive in this trailblazing choose-your-own-trail experience on the Oregon Trail! With more than twenty possible endings, there are wild animals, rapid rivers, bandits, treacherous weather, famine, and even death that stand between you and your dream life out West. Do you have what it takes to make it all the way to Oregon City?"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Spring, 1846: Douglas Allen Deeds dreams of starting a new life out West. When the opportunity to join the Donner Party Expedition arises, he leaves the life he's known behind to set out on the nearly 2,000-mile trek from Independence, Missouri to sunny California. But progress is slow. Brutal heat, poisoned water, and rough terrain slow them down. Soon they have a choice: continue on the known but grueling trail, or take a shortcut that would cut...
17) Pioneer cat
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a young pioneer girl smuggles a cat aboard the wagon train taking her family from Missouri to Oregon, it turns out to be the best thing she could have done.
Author
Series
Oregon Trail volume 8
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It's 1845 and your family is fleeing Florida with hopes of starting fresh out west. You'll encounter sudden snowstorms that will overwhelm your wagon train en route to the Oregon Trail. Food will become scarce--and you'll get lost. Can you survive the unseasonably cold climates? If you make the right choices, you could find the Lewis-Clark Trail, which would lead back to the Oregon Trail--though it will take longer than you'd planned. Do you have...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown, and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Describes the adventurous prospectors who traversed the United States in 1848 in response to rumors of gold in the Sacramento Valley, detailing the rough and rowdy cities that popped up, seemingly out of thin air, to accommodate the treasure-seekers.
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