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Author
Series
Gold seer trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lee Westfall, a young woman with the magical ability to sense the presence of gold, must flee her home to avoid people who would abuse her powers, so when her best friend Jefferson heads out across Gold Rush-era America to stake his claim, she disguises herself as a boy and sets out on her own dangerous journey.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1848, nine-year-old Joshua Martin McCullough writes a journal of his family's journey from Missouri to Oregon in a covered wagon. Includes a historical note about westward migration.
Author
Series
Publisher
Silver Moon Press
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In 1860, traveling by wagon train from Missouri to California, fourteen-year-old Lucy finds the discomfort and danger made tolerable by the presence of two handsome twin brothers.
Author
Series
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.
8) Koda
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Traveling with his owners from Missouri to Oregon in 1848, Koda, an energetic two-year-old quarter horse, finds the long journey increasingly tedious and tiring until his young owner goes missing on the trail and he must use all his skills to find her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In his 1845 diary, thirteen-year-old orphan Jedediah describes his wagon train journey to Oregon, in which he confronts rivers and sandy plains, bears and rattlesnakes, and the challenges of living with his fellow travelers. Includes historical notes.
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A fictional journal recounting the travels--from Pittsburgh to the Pacific Ocean--of sixteen-year-old George Shannon, the youngest member of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery.
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