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Desperate journey
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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 l...
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.
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- Creator
- Jim Murphy
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- New York : Scholastic Press, 2006
- Physical Details
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- 278 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 0439078067, 9780439078061
- OCLC
- ocm65063225
- 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
Subjects
- River boats -- Juvenile fiction.
- Families -- Juvenile fiction.
- Erie Canal (N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction.
- River boats -- Fiction.
Children's Subject Heading
- Family life -- Fiction.
Children's Subject Heading
- Erie Canal (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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