Search - Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie : The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell, 1847 (Dear America)

This would be great book for any pre-teen or teenage girl interested in history. It is a fictional first hand account of a girl who travels across the prairie in the mid 1800s.

This is the first book in this series that I have read. It is very good, and gives you a good view of what it was like to come across the country in a covered wagon from the view of a young teenager. The way that she saw things was completely different then an adult would have seen things. She tells you about the deaths and the births along the way and the way she describes the scenery is so good that you feel like you are really there. Although this book is written for young adults I enjoyed it very much and would recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about this time in history.

This is a great book for young girls to read if they enjoy historical fiction. I'm going to bring it to school for my 5th graders to read.

LOVED this book when I was in jr high. All the Dear America books are great for tweens. It dealt with real life like death, love, obey your parents and all that good stuff and it gives you a history lesson. Highly reccomended.

This was a good book. Nice quick easy read. Intended for a "younger" reader. Well written. Overall not bad.