Adventure on the Wilderness Road, 1775
by Laurie Lawlor
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Eleven-year-old Elizabeth dashes impulsively into the wilderness to try to save her younger sister, Martha--their father's favorite and the object of Elizabeth's jealousy--when Martha goes missing during their family's journey to Daniel Boone's new settlement in Kentucky.
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Diaries, Fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, History, Indians of North America, Juvenile fiction, Sisters, Wilderness Road, Children's fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, United states, history, revolution, 1775-1783, juvenile literature, United states, history, revolution, 1775-1783Places
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Originally published: New York : Pocket Books, 1999.
"A Minstrel book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-185).
"RL: 6"--P. 4 of cover.
"008-012"--P. 4 of cover.
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In 1775, while traveling with her family from Virginia to Kentucky, and joined by another family along the way, eleven-year-old Elizabeth reads Gulliver's Travels to the children and keeps a journal of their adventures, which include a runaway slave, encounters with Cherokees, and a near-fatal accident.
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