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ADVENTURE ON THE WILDERNESS ROAD 1775: AMERICAN SISTERS #4

by Laurie Lawlor

Series:American Sisters (1775)

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In 1775, while traveling with her family from Virginia to Kentucky, and joined by another family along the way, eleven-year-old Elizabeth reads Gulliver's Travels to the children and keeps a journal of their adventures, which include a runaway slave, encounters with Cherokees, and a near-fatal accident.

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Languages: English
Media: Paper
ISBNs: 4

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Published: 1999
Genres: Kids, Children's Books, Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS: 813.54
LCC: PZ7 .L4189 .A

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