The Devil's Paintbox

The Devil's Paintbox
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Publisher : Ember
Total Pages : 386
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ISBN-10 : 9780449816554
ISBN-13 : 0449816559
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Book Synopsis The Devil's Paintbox by : Victoria McKernan

Download or read book The Devil's Paintbox written by Victoria McKernan and published by Ember. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When almost-16-year-old Aiden Lynch and his little sister, Maddy, first meet trailrider Jefferson J. Jackson, they're eating clay and hunting grasshoppers on the remains of their family's drought-ravaged Kansas farm. In short, the two orphans are starving to death, so when this man Jackson offers an escape—a 2000-mile journey across the roughest country in the world—Aiden knows it's their only choice. They say there are a hundred ways to die on the Oregon Trail, and the long wagon journey is broken only by catastrophe: wolf attacks, tornadoes, rattlesnakes, deadly river crossings, Indians, and the looming threat of smallpox, "the devil's paint." But with the sky a cornflower blue and the air sweet with new prairie grass, Aiden and Maddy and a hundred fellow travelers move forward with a growing hope, and the promise of a new life in the Washington Territory. Adventure-filled and historically accurate, Victoria McKernan captures both the peril and stunning beauty of the frontier West in an epic American story at once sweeping and intimate, heartbreaking and hopeful.


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