Its a long way from Western Virginia to Texas, but recently orphaned, fourteen-year-old Ephraim Darter is determined to make the trip. He wants to find adventure, not be a farmer for the rest of his life.
He sets out one spring morning in 1850 with a good horse named General, a family keepsake clock no one else thinks will survive the journey intact, and a new friend who knows more about Latin grammar than traveling by horse. The boys encounter flooded rivers, bedbug-ridden inns, and a rascally medicine man who steals the precious clock, and in the process, experiences a life-changing...
Its a long way from Western Virginia to Texas, but recently orphaned, fourteen-year-old Ephraim Darter is determined to make the trip. He wants to fin...
When twelve-year-old Ruthy Donohue is sent away from home, because of an awful tragedy in the fall of 1837, she has to figure out how to cope with the hardships of travel in a wagon train and how to make a temporary life for herself among complete strangers, including an irritating young man named Will Grogan. Relive the days of the pioneers as you follow Ruthys journey from East Tennessee to southwest Missouri. Enter into her struggles as you read her private journal. Watch her learn to do things she never thought she could do and meet challenges she never dreamed shed have.
"Exiled!" is a...
When twelve-year-old Ruthy Donohue is sent away from home, because of an awful tragedy in the fall of 1837, she has to figure out how to cope with the...
