Book Descriptions
for Cassie's Journey by Brett Harvey and Deborah Kogan Ray
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Based on actual accounts from women's diaries, a first-person fictionalized narrative tells of one family's wagon trip from Independence, Missouri, to Sacramento, California. Black-and-white drawings offer a visual panorama of the arduous events in a journey which can be followed on the map at the book's beginning. (Ages 8-12)
CCBC Choices 1988. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1988. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
A young girl relates the hardships and dangers of traveling with her family in a covered wagon from Illinois to California during the 1860's.
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.
