The bread sister of Sinking Creek
By: by Robin Moore
Edition: 1st HarperCollins ed.
Series: Celebrate reading, Scott Foresman -- 7D; Celebrate reading! -- 7D.
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780673801470
Subjects: Orphans; Bread; Juvenile fiction; Frontier and pioneer life; Fiction
Description: Fourteen-year-old Maggie Callahan, who has a special talent for making bread, struggles to survive on the Pennsylvania frontier in the late 1700s. Fourteen-year-old Maggie Callahan, who has a special talent for making bread, struggles to survive on the Pennsylvania frontier in the late 1700s. A moving saga of young Maggie Callahan, who arrives after a long journey from Philadelphia to live with her Aunt Franny, only to find an empty cabin. Becoming part of a strange family, the courageous Maggie faces difficult choices of life on the frontier. "Vividly portrays the danger and excitement of early America."