Download or read book Blazing West the Journal of Augustus Pelletier the Lewis and Clark Expedition 1804 written by Kathryn Lasky and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old Augustus Pelletier joins the Lewis and Clark Expedition after the death of his mother and captures the excitement and danger of the journey in his journal.
Download or read book The Journal of Augustus Pelletier written by Kathryn Lasky and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictional journal kept by twelve-year-old Augustus Pelletier, the youngest member of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery.
Download or read book Blazing West The Journal of Augustus Pelletie The Lewis and Clark Expedition 1804 written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newbery Honor author Kathryn Lasky's exciting JOURNAL OF AUGUSTUS PELLETIER is back with a dynamic repackaging! Fourteen-year-old Augustus, half French, half Omaha Indian, sets out to proof himself worthy of Lewis and Clark on their great adventure of discovery. He follows the explorers for two hundred miles before making his presence known to the commanding captain of the Corps of Discovery, Meriwether Lewis, himself. Gus's ability to read and write makes him useful to the explorers, and he starts to keep a record of their travels. But traveling west isn't easy, and the company faces constant danger. Is Augustus a tough enough explorer to survive such hardships?
Download or read book The Travels of John and Sebastian Cabot written by Joanne Mattern and published by Raintree. This book was released on 1999-07-20 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel with John Cabot as he sails on several voyages to Canada.
Download or read book A True Patriot written by Barry Denenberg and published by Scholastic Incorporated. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William, a twelve-year-old orphan, writes of his experiences in pre-Revolutionary War Boston where he joins the cause of the patriots who are opposed to the British rule.
Download or read book Into No Man s Land written by Ellen Emerson White and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eighteen-year-old Marine records in his journal his experiences in Vietnam during the siege of Khe Sanh, 1967-1968. Includes a history of Vietnam, war timeline, glossary, and related military information.
Download or read book Stay Alive The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds The Donner Party Expedition 1846 written by Rodman Philbrick and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Soon we will eat the frozen cattle.... And then, when that is gone, what shall we eat?Shall we eat the snow? Shall we eat the ice? Shall we eat the bark on the frozen trees?What shall we eat?"Spring, 1846: Douglas Allen Deeds dreams of starting a new life out West. When the opportunity to join the Donner Party Expedition arises, he leaves the life he's known behind to set out on the nearly 2,000-mile trek from Independence, Missouri to sunny California.But progress is slow. Brutal heat, poisoned water, and rough terrain slows the expedition down. Soon they have a choice: continue on the known but grueling trail, or take a shortcut that would cut 350 miles from their journey-but take them through unknown territory. Is it worth the risk?Winter comes quickly in the mountains, and the wrong choice could leave them stranded in the Sierra Mountains when the snow comes, with no shelter, supplies, or even food.Newbery Honor-winning author Rodman Philbrick brings to life the excitement, danger, and horrors of the Donner Party's journey west.
Download or read book On Enemy Soil written by Jim Murphy and published by Scholastic Incorporated. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Edmond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his experiences and those of "G" Company which he joined as a volunteer in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Download or read book Max the Mighty written by Rodman Philbrick and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion to Newbery Honor winning author Rodman Philbrick's Freak the Mighty. This is the dramatic, heart-wrenching tale of Max and Worm, two outsiders who turn to each other for survival. Meet Maxwell Kane, the brooding giant-of-a-boy who escaped from his basement hiding place and faced the real world in FREAK THE MIGHTY.Still grieving over the loss of his best friend, Kevin, Max finds himself defending a young, solitary girl cruelly nicknamed "Worm" because she loves to read so much.When Max gets blamed for a horrific crime, he and Worm are forced to run for their lives. They flee across America -- hunted by the police, and pursued by the mysterious man known as the Undertaker. The only way they can survive is to confront Worm's darkest and most revealing secret. And that means facing something more frightening than death itself.
Download or read book The Journal of Otto Peltonen written by William Durbin and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1905 fifteen-year-old Otto describes in his journal how he travels from Finland to America, joining his father in a dreary iron mining community in Minnesota and becoming involved in a union fight for better working conditions.
Download or read book Simon Wiesenthal written by Linda Jacobs Altman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life and accomplishments of Holocaust survivor, Simon Wiesenthal, whose passion for justice has brought many Nazis to account for their horrific deeds.
Download or read book The Journal of Ben Uchida written by Barry Denenberg and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 2002 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Ben Uchida keeps a journal of his experiences as a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp in Mirror Lake, California, during World War II.
Download or read book Freedom s Wings written by Sharon Dennis Wyeth and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nine-year-old slave keeps a diary of his journey to freedom along the Underground Railroad in 1857.
Download or read book The Price of Honor written by Kenneth MacLeish and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of over 200 letters of a First Yale Unit pilot traces his career from 1917 until his death just three weeks before the war's end.
Download or read book It s Complicated written by Danah Boyd and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the online social habits of American teens and analyzes the role technology and social media plays in their lives, examining common misconceptions about such topics as identity, privacy, danger, and bullying.
Download or read book The Journal of Jesse Smoke written by Joseph Bruchac and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 2001 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jesse Smoke and his family are forced to leave their home, land, and belongings, they must journey west, along with several thousand other Cherokees, on The Trail of Tears.
Download or read book Mr McGill Goes to Town written by Jim Aylesworth and published by Henry Holt Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. McGill and four of his friends agree to help each other finish their chores so that they will all have time to go to the town fair.
