| A Heart for Any Fate: Westward to Oregon, 1845 Contributor(s): Crew, Linda (Author), Armstrong, Jennifer (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1932010262 ISBN-13: 9781932010268 Publisher: Ooligan Press OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2009 Annotation: Seventeen-year-old Lovisa King leaves Missouri for the Oregon Territory in 1845. A Heart for Any Fate, based on the history of a company of real pioneers, tells the story of the King family, whose careful plans are challenged by the harsh, unforeseen realities of overland travel. The family makes the unfortunate decision to follow guide Stephen Meek, who leads them into blistering weather, drought, and treacherous river crossings along a shortcut that becomes known as the Terrible Trail. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Action & Adventure - Survival Stories - Young Adult Fiction | Girls & Women - Young Adult Fiction | Biographical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 860 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.70 lbs) 247 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Cultural Region - Western U.S. |
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Contributor Bio(s): Crew, Linda: - """"The approach I take with my writing is to have my work reflect real life, and yet be shaped into the best story possible. I feel that a powerful piece of fiction can often convey an emotional truth more compellingly than a strictly factual version.""""--Linda Crew Linda Crew is a recipient of the IRA Children's Book Award and the Golden Kite Award, and her books have been named ALA Notables as well as ALA Best Books. Linda Crew didn't always have to be a writer. In fact, while attending junior high school in the early sixties, this award-winning author wanted to be a folksinger. By high school, when it bad become apparent to her that she really couldn't sing, she decided to become an actress. Then, at the University of Oregon, her theatrical ambitions evaporated. At her mother's suggestion, Crew switched her major to journalism--and loved it. Crew's training was in journalism--interviewing, researching, and marketing--and she was encouraged to present the facts accurately and without fuss. But her assigmnents always ended up full of dialogue and she ""had this compelling urge to make a story just a little better than the way it happened."" Thus, her talent for writing fiction was born. After college, Linda Crew married her husband Herb and settled on a farm in her home state of Oregon, where the couple still resides today with their three children. Crew leads a full, busy life and admits, ""It's difficult sometimes to carve out the time for writing with so many other demands, but it's important for me to do some living. After all, what could a person possibly write about if she spent all day closeted in front of her computer?"" Book List ""Pets: ""One lively black cat named Goblin ""Favorite . . . ,"""","" . hobbies? I like theater. I enjoy working with dried flowers, also sewing, especially creative things like doll clothes and costumes. I am notorious in my house for going overboard on costumes! |