The Wild Year: Joshua's Oregon Trail Diary (My America) - Hardcover

Hermes, Patricia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0439370558 ISBN 13: 9780439370554

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks, 2003

Synopsis

In this book, Joshua's diary comes to an end with stories of life in Oregon, his sister lost in the woods, and Joshua starting school. Simultaneous.

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Grade 2-4-Nine-year-old Joshua continues his account of his family's move to Oregon begun in Westward to Home (2001) and continued in A Perfect Place (2002, both Scholastic). Wild Year covers frontier living in the Willamette Valley and, unusual for a beginning chapter book, the establishment of territorial government. These details of frontier life may not be as "wild" as the title implies, especially after the previous trials and tribulations on the Oregon Trail. Yet the promise of going to school for the first time after the long journey, the safe return of a lost younger sister, and the prospect of adding two orphans to the McCullough family will hold readers' interest, especially if they have read the earlier titles. Despite the diary format, Hermes creates a smooth, economical narrative that is supplemented with a brief historical endnote.
Sue Sherif, Alaska State Library, Anchorage
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Edition details

• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0439370558
• ISBN 13: 9780439370554
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 112