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West Against The Wind

by Liza Ketchum Murrow, Liza Ketchum · 1987 · 240 pages

Part of the Griswold Quartet series

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Fourteen-year-old Abby seeks both her father and the secret of a handsome but mysterious boy during an arduous journey by wagon train from the middle of the country to the Pacific coast in 1850.

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Genre
historical fiction
Themes
childhood
Audience
young adultchildrens
Length
medium · 240 pages

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