Pub Date: October 19, 1987
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 79010445
Lexile Code: 0650
Features: Illustrated, Maps, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: 10 to 12
Physical Info: 0.40" H x 6.00" L x 8.80" W ( 0.30 lbs) 80 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Readers | Beginner | Historical | United States 19th Century | Animals | Dogs | Family | General see also headings under Social Themes | Travel | Social Themes | New Experience | Pets | United States 20th Century | Action and Adventure | Survival Stories | Places | United States | Lifestyles | Country Life | United States 21st Century | Strangers
Description: Lucy's frisky little puppy, Finn, gets into one scrape after another as Lucy and her family travel westward to Oregon by wagon train in 1843.
Brief description:
Carla Stevens has kept a diary since she was ten years old, and taught a course about journal writing at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Ms. Stevens lives in New York City and Cornwall, Connecticut, with her husband and cat.
Review Quotes:
"Stevens used quotes from actual journals to open each chapter and has painted quite a vivid picture of the life on the early wagon trains." School Library Journal