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EMMA'S RIVER
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Written by
Alison Hart
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Illustrated by
Paul Bachem
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Hardcover: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-56145-524-9
Total Pages: 160
Size: 5 x 7
6 color spots
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Alison Hart is the author of more than forty books for young readers. She is a teacher at Blue Ridge Community College and lives in Virginia. Click here to learn more about her Author in Schools presentations.You can visit Alison Hart's website at: www.alisonhartbooks.com
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Paul Bachem has worked for many years as an award-winning freelance
illustrator, producing work for most of the major book and magazine
publishers. He lives in New York.
You can visit Paul Bachem's website at: www.paulbachem.com
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Horse-crazy girls and Titanic fans will love this action-packed adventure story set on a steamboat on the Missouri River in the nineteenth century.
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The year is 1852. Ten-year-old Emma Wright and her mama have boarded the Sally May for a steamboat journey that will take them up the Mississippi River to the Missouri River and finally to St. Joseph where Papa will be waiting. The pair is being escorted by Dr. Burton, who is tending to Mama’s fragile health.
But Emma doesn’t like that Dr. Burton treats her like a bothersome child and bosses her around. And she is used to getting her own way. When concern over her beloved pony, Licorice Twist, lures her below to the main deck—a place that she has been forbidden to go—Emma is shocked by what she encounters. Here is a world completely different than the pampered one above with its comfortable stateroom and fine food. Here livestock and poor immigrants huddle together—underfed, unclean, and exhausted.
Soon Emma is making regular trips below, ferrying food to Patrick, an eleven-year-old stowaway who recently emigrated from Ireland. Slowly, Emma and Patrick develop a friendship that spans classes and ship levels. When the boiler explodes and the steamboat starts sinking, Emma fights her way through the black smoke to find her friends and family. But is it too late?
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Reviews
"The big river and the boat form an interesting background..."
Kirkus
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