Dear Levi: Letters from the Overland Trail
Elvira Woodruff, Beth Peck
Library Binding
(Perfection Learning, Feb. 1, 1998)
Illus. in black-and-white. In 1851, 12-year-old orphan Austin Ives joins awagon train headed for California. As they make their way across the country, Austin writes home to his brother Levi, describing day-to-day life on theOverland Trail. In his own observant and vigorous voice, Austin tells of theeveryday happenings--hunting game and fording streams--as well as more dramaticepisodes, from devastating illness to complex encounters with Indians."Woodruff presents a bounty of information in a format that will be especiallyvalued as a classroom readaloud."-- "Bulletin, Center for Children's Books."
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