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| Twelve-year-old Maggie and her family live and work on a boat on the Erie Canal, but when hard times beset them, Maggie must get the shipments through. "Gripping."—Booklist |
Foreign Customer Review / 国外客户评价: |
| Rating: four and half stars.
Desperate Journey by Jim Murphy is about a 12 year old girl named Maggie who has been traveling the Erie Canal with her family (Dad, Mom, Uncle Hen, Maggie, and her brother Eamon). It takes place in the 1840s and they are doing fine until Papa gets into a fight and loses all of their money. They have about a week to get all the way to Buffalo, New York starting at the other side of the canal. If they don't then their boat gets seized for debt. This book is about their journey down the Erie Canal and all of the obstacles.
I enjoyed this book because it tells an exciting story while teaching about American History. I really liked the character Maggie because she never gave up when times were at their worst. She was loyal to her family. I find the way people on the Erie Canal lived and made money interesting. Even though the Erie Canal was huge and a lot of people used it, everybody still knew each other. It was like a large community. This book taught me a lot about the Erie Canal and it was entertaining to read.
I wish that the author would have given me more background and information on the family. I felt like the book began in the middle of the story. I would like to know more about the history between Longfingered John and Maggie's dad to better understand the story. How did the fight between the two men even start?
I think that you would definitely enjoy this great book about a girl's life on the Erie Canal!
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About the Author / 作者介绍: |
| Jim Murphy began his career in children's books as an editor, but managed to escape to become a writer, entering a life of personal and creative happiness and enduring financial uncertainty. He's convinced that the latter keeps him coming back to his computer to write every day and feels that a sense of impending doom is the doorway to creativity. He has never counted the number of books he's published (feeling the time and energy is better spent doing research and writing) but guesses that he has over thirty books to his credit. Jim's work has been honored with numerous awards, including two American Llibrary Association Newbery Honor Book Awards, an ALA Robert F. Sibert Award and Sibert Honor Book Award, three National Council of Teachers of English Orbis Pictus Awards, a Boston Globe/Horn Book Award and a BG/HB Honor Book Award, two SCBWI Golden Kite Awards, and been a finalist for the National Book Award. Recently, he was given the ALA Margaret A. Edwards Award for "his significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature."
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