The Wild Year: Joshua's Oregon Trail Diary [Paperback]

Patricia Hermes (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2003 | Age Level: 7 and up | Series: My America (Book 3)

In Joshua's final diary, by Patricia Hermes, we meet the young adventurer once again out West.

Joshua continues to chronicle the pioneering life as he and his family continue to grow and thrive out West, in Oregon. Throughout these times of hardship and happiness, Joshua is always courageous and thoughtful.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 2-4-Nine-year-old Joshua continues his account of his family's move to Oregon begun in Westward to Home (2001) and continued in A Perfect Place (2002, both Scholastic). Wild Year covers frontier living in the Willamette Valley and, unusual for a beginning chapter book, the establishment of territorial government. These details of frontier life may not be as "wild" as the title implies, especially after the previous trials and tribulations on the Oregon Trail. Yet the promise of going to school for the first time after the long journey, the safe return of a lost younger sister, and the prospect of adding two orphans to the McCullough family will hold readers' interest, especially if they have read the earlier titles. Despite the diary format, Hermes creates a smooth, economical narrative that is supplemented with a brief historical endnote.
Sue Sherif, Alaska State Library, Anchorage
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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 7 and up
  
• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic Inc. (August 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0439370566
• ISBN-13: 978-0439370561
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #563,855 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Patricia Hermes is the author of almost fifty books for readers from early middle grades through young adult, as well as two nonfiction books for adults. Her books have won many awards and recognitions: American Library Association Best Book, Smithsonian Notable Book, C.S. Lewis Honor Book, Ira Children's Choice, as well as many state awards, four of them for the novel,You Shouldn't Have to Say Goodbye.

As a lecturer and speaker at schools and libraries, she engages her audience with her lively presentations, underscoring key qualities of good writing, and, of course, good rewriting. (She has been known to revise her books ten times!) She has researched and written six historical novels in the Scholastic Dear America/My America series.

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A Kid's Review

This review is from: The Wild Year: Joshua's Oregon Trail Diary (Paperback)

I have read the first diary of Joshua three times, the second one twice. I am about to read the third one, which is this one and I KNOW it will be good. I would also recommend other Dear America books and other books by Patricia Hermes to anybody. They make a realistic fictional person from the colonial times and describes how they feel while telling a conflict at the same time. I've already read seven Dear America Books. I liked every single one of them. And I know this will also be great, too.