Rachel's journal: The story of a pioneer girl (A Young American voices book) - Softcover

Moss, Marissa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0439133424 ISBN 13: 9780439133425

Publisher: Scholastic Inc, 1999

Synopsis

Glossy paperback 1998 9.25x7.75x0.20 RECORD OF PIONEER GIRL JOURNEY.

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Review:

Marissa Moss, author of the popular Amelia's Notebook series, moves into new territory with Rachel's Journal, the story of a spirited 10-year-old pioneer girl who must leave her childhood home in Illinois and travel by covered wagon to the wilds of California. Rachel is entrusted by her grandfather to chronicle the long journey in the form of a handwritten journal. Through her journal entries, we are transported into a world of new adventures and fearsome challenges as Rachel's family and the others in their wagon train make their way along the Oregon Trail in search of a homestead in the Sacramento Valley.

Rachel is refreshingly unconventional: she dons her brother's shirt and britches when one of the oxen makes "a nice meal" of her only wool dress, learns to crack a whip, and makes friends with a young American Indian brave. Children will delight in the day-to-day accounts of life on the trail, enhanced by the notes and colorful drawings Rachel has added to the journal's margins. Based on real diaries kept by courageous pioneers between 1846 and 1868, Rachel's Journal is an excellent choice for third graders and older, and can also be successfully read aloud to younger children, who will enjoy imagining themselves as pioneering adventurers. An intimate look at a momentous journey, this book will not fail to move and inspire readers of all ages. --Aimée Damman

About the Author:

MARISSA MOSS is best known for her handwritten illustrated journals, including the enormously popular Amelia series. She lives in Berkeley, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scholastic Inc
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0439133424
• ISBN 13: 9780439133425
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1