Douglas Deeds, a fifteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his travels by wagon train as a member of the ill-fated Donner Party, which became stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-47.---from the publisher
160 pages 978-0439216005 Ages 10-13 (cannibalism- no graphic details)
Keywords: historical fiction, journal, journeys, orphan, winter, starvation, 10 year old, 11 year old, 12 year old, 13 year old, mistakes, part of a series