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Go west, young women!

When a disaster claims the men of their wagon train, spunky twelve-year-old Phoebe, her mother, sister, and other women rely on their own resources to complete the journey to Oregon in 1845.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Karr, Kathleen
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 1996.
Subjects:	Overland journeys to the Pacific > Juvenile fiction. Sex role > Juvenile fiction. Women > West (U.S.) > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	When a disaster claims the men of their wagon train, spunky twelve-year-old Phoebe, her mother, sister, and other women rely on their own resources to complete the journey to Oregon in 1845.
Physical Description:	p. cm.
ISBN:	0060271515 0060271523
Author Notes:	Kathleen Karr was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania on April 21, 1946. She received a bachelor's degree from Catholic University in 1968 and a master's degree in English literature from Providence College. In 1971, she began working at the American Film Institute in Washington, D.C. She also taught high school and college before taking up writing. She published five works of women's fiction before moving to children's fiction. Her children's novels included It Ain't Always Easy and The Great Turkey Walk. She received the Golden Kite Award for Best Fiction in 2000 for The Boxer and the Agatha Award for best Children's/YA Mystery of the Year in 2003 for The Seventh Knot. She died on December 6, 2017 at the age of 71. (Bowker Author Biography)