The Devil's Paintbox
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The Devil's Paintbox by Victoria Mckernan
It is April 1865. Aiden and Maddy Lynch have barely survived a brutal winter alone on the remains of their family's drought-ravaged Kansas farm when an unlikely savior appears one morning. Jefferson J. Jackson is looking for strong men to work in the Seattle lumber camps, not a half-starved teenager with a useless girl in tow, but somehow the pair convinces him to let them join his wagon train.It is a chance at a new life for Aiden and Maddy, but one that is two thousand rough and perilous miles away. "It's said there's a grave a mile on the Oregon Trail," Jackson tells them bluntly. And Aiden soon learns that the greatest dangers go beyond storms, stampedes, and rattlesnakes. When smallpox, "the devil's paint," threatens an Indian community Aiden has befriended, his loyalties, wits, and courage are severely tested.
Adventure-filled and historically accurate, Victoria McKernan's novel captures both the peril and stunning beauty of the frontier West in an epic American story at once sweeping and intimate, heartbreaking and hopeful.
Victoria McKernan is the bestselling author of The Devil's Paintbox and Shackleton's Stowaway, a young adult historical fiction about an 18-year-old stowaway on Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition. She's also the author of four adult novels. She shares her home with a dog, two cats, and a boa constrictor in Washington, DC.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780440239628 |
| ISBN 10 | 0440239621 |
| Title | The Devil's Paintbox |
| Author | Victoria Mckernan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2010-10-12 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Prizes | Winner of ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2010, Winner of NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2010, Nominated for New Jersey Garden State Teen Book Award., Nominated for South Carolina Teen Book Award., Nominated for Utah Children's Book Award. |
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