num_pages: 48
description: Award-winning author Jean Van Leeuwen tells the moving story of a pioneer family during the Westward ExpansionOne day in early spring they packed everything they had into our wagon, and set out to find a new home. Sleeping under the stars, weathering terrible storms, and fording swollen rivers, Hannah and her family made the journey of a lifetime.An American Bookseller Pick of the Lists."Like pages torn from a frontier journal, stirring sketches and lyrical text form a moving tribute to the brave families to whom the book is dedicated."— Publishers Weekly
language: English
title: Going West
titlecomplete: Going West (Picture Puffins)
genres: Historical Fiction, Childrens, Picture Books, Family, 2nd Grade, Fiction
ratings_count: 62
publisher: Puffin Books