Charlotte's Rose - Softcover

Cannon, A. E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1607811413 ISBN 13: 9781607811411

Publisher: University of Utah Press, 2011

Synopsis

Charlotte’s Rose—justifiably back in print—tells the story of a young Welsh girl, Charlotte Edwards, who, soon after her mother dies, sails with her father from England to the United States to become part of a company of Mormon handcart pioneers—emigrants with no horses or oxen who themselves pulled the heavy carts filled with their belongings. These were arduous journeys. While on the Mormon Trail, Charlotte befriends a young mother who later dies in childbirth. Though only 12 years old, Charlotte assumes responsibility for the infant and carries her to Utah. Over the course of their journey together, Charlotte becomes deeply attached to the baby she calls Rose, which makes Charlotte’s choice at the novel’s end particularly poignant.

The author, A. E. Cannon, is adept at creating vivid, multifaceted, believable characters and has crafted a story of pioneers that will seem relevant to today’s young people. The reader will quickly be drawn into the story as Charlotte struggles to navigate the trials of an adolescent moving into adulthood. Although this is a book about Mormon pioneers, it is in fact about the larger American experience of immigration—a drama still unfolding today­—and Charlotte’s coming-of-age journey will resonate with readers young and old.
 

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Book Description

An engaging tale of the Mormon handcart pioneers perfect for middle readers

From the Inside Flap

I will carry that baby to Zion,? I shout at them, ?just see if I don?t!?

Well! I did it! I have left them all quite speechless.

In 1856, 12-year-old Charlotte and her widowed father are members of a Welsh handcart company on the Mormon Trail, so poor they cannot afford wagons but must push carts from Iowa City to Utah. When a woman in the company dies giving birth, and her husband is too distraught to care for the baby girl, Charlotte grandly offers to care for the baby, whom she names Rose. But taking care of Rose turns out to be much harder than Charlotte expected. She?s stuck; she can?t give Rose back. As she struggles along the trail with the infant, she comes to love Rose, and to dream of life with ?her? baby, even though Papa and others remind her that she will have to give Rose back to her father when they part ways at the end of the trail.
From the Hardcover edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Utah Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1607811413
• ISBN 13: 9781607811411
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256