Title: Emma's river
Description: In 1852, Emma, her pregnant mother and her pony board the steamboat Sally May to meet her father in St. Joseph, Missouri, but when the ship suddenly explodes in a fiery blaze, Emma and all onboard must fight for their survival in the icy waters of the Missouri River.
Subjects: Survival, Fiction, Voyages and travels, Fires, History, Disasters, Steamboats, Missouri River, Steamboat disasters, Mississippi River, Children's fiction, Boats and boating, fiction, Voyages and travels, fiction, Fires, fiction, Disasters, fiction, Survival, fiction, Missouri, fiction
Places: Missouri
Time periods: 19th century