Category: Historical Fiction Publisher: Whiskey Creek Press
ISBN-10: 603137966
Type: Fiction
Pages: 381
Copyright: May 1, 2010
ISBN-13: 9781603137966
Pioneers meet the trials and life-threatening dangers of the trail to the Dakota Territory in 1865.
Eighteen-year-old Lissa Whitaker's comfortable life in 1865 Philadelphia is destroyed by fire, and she finds herself in a covered wagon with her family, heading for the Dakota Territory. Danger and tragedy force her to set aside her regrets and face the perils of the trail with Lars Oleson, the man who gave her father the outrageous idea of moving west.
Autumn 1940. Germany invades Britain. Newport is blitzed. Danny O’Shea’s house is bombed, his wife is killed. While taking his young son Adam to neutral Ireland, they witness an attack on a German convoy. The result is brutal.
Based on the memoirs of a Pearl Harbor survivor. Letters from two pen pals take the reader on a journey into the past, a past where nightmares came true, and when hatred reigned.
First Place Winner in historical fiction in the Purple Dragonfly Awards for excellence in children's literature, and named a U.P. Notable Classic.
Feel like you are in the moment nearly 100 years ago with a young girl, daughter of Finnish immigr
