On This Page
Description
In 1815, while traveling by covered wagon to settle in the wilderness of western New York, eleven-year-old Mem experiences a flood and separation from her family.Tags
Recommendations
Member Recommendations
Member Reviews
Mem and her family are travelling from their comfortable home in Connecticut to the wilderness of the Genesee Country. Mem's family struggles along the way due to the rough conditions. On one particularly bad morning the family is travelling during a rain storm. Mem falls out of the wagon and blacks out. When she comes back to her senses her family is too far gone to find them. Will she ever connect with them again?
(blank)
Ratings
Members
- Recently Added By
Author Information
40 Works 5,696 Members
As a child, Mary Jane Auch loved books and read constantly. Her interest in drawing began as a child and continued through high school. She went on to become an art major at Skidmore College. After graduation, Auch went for New York City, but after a year of designing prints for men's pajamas, she decided she wanted to do something more meaningful show more with her life. She enrolled in the Occupational Therapy program at Columbia University, and worked for some years in a children's hospital near Hartford, Connecticut. Eventually, Auch began illustrating for Pennywhistle Press, a national children's newspaper, which led to an interest in illustrating children's books. In the summer of 1984, Auch took a week-long children's writing conference on Cape Cod. Auch finally knew that she wanted to a writer when an instructor told her that sometimes artists find they can paint better pictures with words. She began sending manuscripts to publishers, writing four novels before she sold the first one. She then sold a second book to another publisher the same week. She continued writing books for older kids, abandoning her dream of illustrating for a while. After writing nine books, she wrote and illustrated The Easter Egg Farm, and has done both ever since. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Awards and Honors
Awards
Notable Lists
Series
Classifications
Statistics
- Members
- 381
- Popularity
- 82,101
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.28)
- Languages
- Danish, English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 1
