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Journey to Nowhere

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I recommend this book to 4th and 5th graders especially. This
book is very exciting once you start reading it you won't want to stop! There is a lot of adventure and sometimes-freaky parts in Journey to Nowhere. As `Mem' the main character, falls off her family's wagon and travels farther and farther into the woods I guarantee you won't want to stop reading this book!

"Journey to Nowhere" was nonstop and never boring. Although it doesn't give a feel of what the trail was like, it showed unsafe traveling was, and what life was like once settling on fresh land, without a house. Auch showed how dangerous living in the open terrain was and how blind some people were to those dangers. I certainly recommend this book to readers who are interested in this era and I look forward to reading the rest of the series.

If your in 3-6th grade and like historical fiction you will love this book! It tells about the journey of a girl named "mem" and her family as they travel to Genese county in covered wagon. It's a great book with tons of twists that will keep you reading. If you like this then i highly suggest you read the seguel, "Frozen Summer"

I first read this book years back when I was in elementary school, and to this day, as a college student, I still have my copy. In fact, I recently bought the other two books in the trilogy "Frozen Summer" and "Journey Back Home", because I was so fond of the storyline. Mary Jane Auch does a great job in keeping you interested in Rememberance "Mem" Nye's problems, and how she resolves them, and after looking at the Author's notes at the end, you know you're reading something historically accurate because she went out of her way to do her research. After reading the trilogy, (after wishing there was more to read about Mem) I thought, "wow I can't believe people lived like that 200 years ago.." Overall, a great book, although I must confess it would appeal more to young girls than boys.

This is a wonderful book that touches the heart in many ways when Rememberence Nye, a 11 year old girl, and her family moves from Conneticut to New York. Their journey turned out not to be an easy one when Remberence gets left behind on their journey. It was thrilling to see what would happen next on their increadible journey westward bound.

this book was a greak adventure, that said what was probly giong through a girls mind during the time of the Oregon Trail. It said how her family was close, but Mem who is the main character would rather do mans work, rather then do house hold work.

This was a great book about the adventures of Mem, a 12 year old pioneer girl who moves with her family by covered wagon from Connecticut to western New York in 1815. This was an interesting book because most books about pioneer girls are in the mid 1800s and are about the Oregon Trail or something. This told what life was like for a pioneer girl in the early 1800s and is really good! I highly reccomend it.

It's 1815, and 11-year-old Remembrance Nye and her family are heading for a new life in the wilderness of upstate New York. Uncomfortable with the idea of leaving her beloved extended family and the Connecticut farm on which she grew up, Mem is further discouraged during the family's long wagon journey. Within days of leaving home, Mem falls off the back of the wagon, unbeknownst to her parents, and wanders desperately through the forest until they realize they need to retrace their steps. Mean turkey "drovers" harass and attack the family; then Mama nearly drowns. What else could possibly go wrong?

Yet amidst despair, there's always hope. The love and determination of the Nye family keeps them going, and young readers cheer them on in every chapter.

This is a wonderful book. Lots of exciting adventures; characters who are very real; humor and tension. Mem is spunky and believable, and her family are likeable but (I have to say it again) real--layered and complex and likeable. Gives a definite feel for pioneer life but absolutely without the feel of a history lesson.

Please see other reviews for details, but they miss one thing that may be important to some readers. The author has done a masterful job of showing how people used to live and think, except somewhere along the line, their religion disappeared. It is my impression that religion was pretty important to most colonial era people, but you would never know it from this book.