Bibliograph

To stay alive, Mary Ann Graves and the tragic journey of the Donner party, Skila Brown

Type

Label

To stay alive, Mary Ann Graves and the tragic journey of the Donner party, Skila Brown

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

resource.interestAgeLevel

10-14, Brodart

resource.interestGradeLevel

5-9, Brodart

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

To stay alive

Oclc number

935983477

Responsibility statement

Skila Brown

Sub title

Mary Ann Graves and the tragic journey of the Donner party

Summary

Publisher Annotation: Told in riveting, keenly observed poetry, a moving first-person narrative as experienced by a young survivor of the tragic Donner Party of 1846. The journey west by wagon train promises to be long and arduous for nineteen-year-old Mary Ann Graves and her parents and eight siblings. Yet she is hopeful about their new life in California: freedom from the demands of family, maybe some romance, better opportunities for all. But when winter comes early to the Sierra Nevada and their group gets a late start, the Graves family, traveling alongside the Donner and Reed parties, must endure one of the most harrowing and storied journeys in American history. Amid the pain of loss and the constant threat of death from starvation or cold, Mary Ann s is a narrative, told beautifully in verse, of a girl learning what it means to be part of a family, to make sacrifices for those we love, and above all to persevere

Target audience

pre adolescent

Classification