Pub Date: November 7, 2023
Dewey: 978.02
LCCN: 2023020958
Lexile Code: 0900
Features: Bibliography, Maps, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 08 to 12
Physical Info: 0.80" H x 7.40" L x 6.60" W ( 0.34 lbs) 112 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Nonfiction | Science and Nature | Disasters | Earth Sciences Weather | History | United States 19th Century
Series: What Was?
Description: "In the winter of 1846-47, a group of eighty-seven pioneers heading from the Midwest to California found themselves snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountain range with no way forward and no food or supplies. While forty-eight of the group members survived, the others perished due to extreme weather, starvation, and illness. To survive, the remaining people resorted to extreme measures ... including cannibalism. Learn about the many miscalculations, bad decisions, and extreme weather that led to the demise of nearly half of the Donner Party in this book for young readers about one of California's first major disasters"--