'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title. 10-12) - Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. From Auch (Eggs Mark the Spot, 1996, etc.), good historical details and a rattling good adventure. It's an exciting tale, but the novel's real strength lies in the interesting characters and homely details of life on the frontier nearly two centuries ago, when Connecticut and New York were separated by more than a few hours on the interstate. In 1815, while traveling by covered wagon to settle in the wilderness of western New York, eleven-year-old Mem experiences a flood and separation from her.

Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. Pleasant surprises await them at their new home: neighbors who pitch in to raise the family's cabin and barn, a real town only a day's journey away, and a school. Demco Media, 1998 - Juvenile Fiction - 202 pages. The family pig-almost ready to birth a litter that will be needed on the new farm-is killed by a wolf, and Mem, too, is almost killed twice, first by a bear, and then by falling tree.

After an unpleasant encounter with some turkey drovers, Mem gets separated from her family and seems hopelessly lost the wagon turns over on a rickety bridge and much of the food and their few other possessions are washed away. Language English Pages 216 Previews available in: English In 1817, after her mother has died and her father abandoned his children, thirteen-year-old Mem searches for a new home for Joshua, herself, and their little sister. Mem and her mother see it as a journey to nowhere, to a desolate place with no house, no neighbors, no school-just endless forest. Mary Jane Auch, author of The Princess and the Pizza, on LibraryThing. In 1815, Mem's father decides that the family will sell their Connecticut farm and nearly everything else they own to load up a wagon and make the long and hazardous trek to a new home in the Genesee Country of upstate New York.

Journey to Nowhere by Mary Jane Auch