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Desperate journey
- Title
- Desperate journey / Jim Murphy.
- Author
- Murphy, Jim, 1947-2022.
- Publication
- New York : Scholastic Press, 2006.
- Supplementary Content
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Details
- Description
- 278 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm
- Summary
- 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 or lose everything.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Young adult fiction.
- Awards (note)
- Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2007.
- Contents
- Like a mule -- Thinking and dreaming -- Something terribly wrong -- Long day -- Hang your warrant -- Overwhelming emptiness -- In the dark -- Done in and about to drop -- Stormy night -- Dark presence -- Just an ol? sinner -- Now incline me to repent -- Resurrection -- Awful mess -- Working a miracle -- Curse and a blessing -- Long night -- Billy black, where are you? -- Smothered by the wet and dark -- Grim picture -- Thirsting for blood -- Big world out there -- Glossary -- Historical note.
- Call Number
- J FIC M
- ISBN
- 0439078067
- 9780439078061
- LCCN
- 2006002526
- OCLC
- 65063225
- Author
- Murphy, Jim, 1947-2022.
- Title
- Desperate journey / Jim Murphy.
- Imprint
- New York : Scholastic Press, 2006.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Awards
- Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2007.
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- Other Form:
- Online version: Murphy, Jim, 1947- Desperate journey. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2006 (OCoLC)742444278
- Research Call Number
- J FIC M