Desperate journey
By: Jim Murphy
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780545019712
Subjects: Canal-boats; Juvenile fiction; Families; Family life; Fiction
Description: In the mid-1800s, with both her father and her uncle in jail on an assault charge, Maggie, her brother, and her ailing mother rush their barge along the Erie Canal to deliver their heavy cargo in time to avoid losing all they have.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Scholastic Press, 2006.
Table of contents: title: Erie Canal, 1848; title: Like a mule; title: Thinking and dreaming; title: Something terribly wrong; title: Long day; title: Hang your warrant; title: Overwhelming emptiness; title: In the dark; title: Done in and about to drop; title: Stormy night; title: Dark presence; title: Just an ol' sinner; title: Now incline me to repent; title: Resurrection; title: Awful mess; title: Working a miracle; title: No one was that good; title: Long night; title: Billy Black, where are you?; title: Smothered by the wet and the dark; title: Grim picture; title: Thirsting for blood; title: Big world out there; title: About the Erie Canal; title: Glossary.