Westward to home / by Patricia Hermes.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0439112095 (hb.)
- Physical Description: 108 pages : illustrations ; 20cm.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Scholastic, 2001.
Content descriptions
Target Audience Note: | 320 Lexile. 540L Lexile Decoding demand: 75 (high) Semantic demand: 96 (very high) Syntactic demand: 59 (medium) Structure demand: 87 (very high) Lexile |
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Subject: | Overland journeys to the Pacific > Juvenile fiction. Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.) > Juvenile fiction. Diaries > Juvenile fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. Fiction. Western fiction. |
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- 35 of 35 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.
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Adams PL Sys. - Decatur Branch | IF HER 2-4 (Text) | 34207000773425 | Juv Fiction Intermediate | Available | - |
Benton Co PL - Fowler | JF DEA (Text) | 34044000676658 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
Bloomfield Eastern Greene Co PL - Bloomfield Main | JUV FIC DEA (Text) | 36803000900360 | FICTION-J | Available | - |
Carnegie PL of Steuben Co - Angola | J FIC HER (Text) | 33118000085132 | Children: Fiction | Available | - |
Covington-Veedersburg PL - Covington | J DEA (Text) | 32572000167635 | CVBPLC Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
Culver Elementary School | F HER (Text) | 72456000202591 | SC | Available | - |
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Garrett PL - Garrett | JCH DEA (Text) | 30010170247145 | Juvenile Chapter Book | Available | - |
Greensburg-Decatur Co PL - Westport | WSPT J HER (Text) | 32826010967818 | J Fiction | Available | - |
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- Baker & Taylor
In 1848, nine-year-old Joshua Martin McCullough writes a journal of his family's journey from Missouri to Oregon in a covered wagon, in an addition to a popular series which includes a historical note about westward migration. - Baker & Taylor
In 1848, nine-year-old Joshua Martin McCullough writes a journal of his family's journey from Missouri to Oregon in a covered wagon. - ScholasticIn book one of this diary of life on the Oregon Trail, Pat Hermes tells the story of Joshua McCullough's family's experiences as they pack up their belongings and head west in a wagon train.
It is 1848 when Joshua McCullough and his family leave their home in St. Joseph, Missouri, and set off for Oregon on a wagon train. During their seven-month-long journey, many of the other families on the trail suffer devastating losses, but Joshua's is spared. However, Joshua must conquer his fear of water during the many river crossings the wagon train must make. During one dramatic crossing, Joshua heroically dives into a rushing river to save his younger sister Becky. The battered wagon train reaches Oregon after traveling over two thousand miles. - Scholastic
It is 1848 when Joshua McCullough and his family leave their home in St. Joseph, Missouri, and set off for Oregon on a wagon train. During their seven-month-long journey, many of the other families on the trail suffer devastating losses, but Joshua's is spared. However, Joshua must conquer his fear of water during the many river crossings the wagon train must make. During one dramatic crossing, Joshua heroically dives into a rushing river to save his younger sister Becky. The battered wagon train reaches Oregon after traveling over two thousand miles.