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The Littlest Voyageur

Margi Preus
The Littlest Voyageur Book PDF

Author : Margi Preus
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780823443093

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The Littlest Voyageur by Margi Preus Pdf

A red squirrel stows away on a canoe to fulfill his dream of joining a group of voyageurs--men who paddle canoes filled with goods to a trading post thousands of miles away. A Finalist for the Minnesota Book Award It is 1792 and unbeknownst to a group of voyageurs traveling from Montreal to Grand Portage, an intrepid squirrel, Jean Pierre Petit Le Rouge, sneaks onto their canoe. Le Rouge is soon discovered because he can't contain his excitement--mon dieu he is so enthusiastic. The smells! The vistas! The comradery! The voyageurs are not particularly happy to have him, especially because Le Rouge rides, but he does not paddle. He eats, but he does not cook. He doesn't even carry anything on portages--sometimes it is he who has to be carried. He also has a terrible singing voice. What kind of voyageur is that? When they finally arrive at the trading post Le Rouge is in for a terrible shock--the voyageurs have traveled all those miles to collect beaver pelts. With the help of Monique, a smart and sweet flying squirrel, Le Rouge organizes his fur-bearing friends of the forest to ambush the men and try and convince them to quit being voyageurs. Written by a Newbery honor author, the book has over 20 black-and-white illustrations. A Junior Library Guild Selection

The Voyageur's Paddle

Kathy-jo Wargin
The Voyageur s Paddle Book PDF

Author : Kathy-jo Wargin
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781627531221

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The Voyageur's Paddle by Kathy-jo Wargin Pdf

Voyageur is the French word for "traveler," but in the Great Lakes region during the seventeenth century it described those men who made their living trading furs and goods along water routes. Traveling by canoe, these voyageurs helped to establish north woods trading posts and settlements, opening up the West to future exploration. Young Jacques's father is such a voyageur. He works long hours in bitterly cold weather, absent from home for weeks at a time. As he awaits his father's return from a season of trading, Jacques dreams of the day he will hold the canoe paddle and join the ranks of voyageurs.Author Kathy-jo Wargin is known for her many stories celebrating Great Lakes lore and north woods history including the 2001 IRA Children's Choice Award winner, The Legend of the Loon. She lives with her family in Petoskey, Michigan. David Geister's body of work with Sleeping Bear Press continues to grow and includes The Legend of Minnesota, also written by Kathy-jo Wargin. He specializes in historic art and has a background in commercial art. David lives with his family in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Voyageurs

Margaret Elphinstone
Voyageurs Book PDF

Author : Margaret Elphinstone
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802191519

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Voyageurs by Margaret Elphinstone Pdf

A Quaker’s faith is tested during the War of 1812 in this “stunning work of historical fiction” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Mark Greenhow, a naive and peaceful Quaker, lands on the shores of North America on the eve of the War of 1812, thinking only of finding the missing sister, a missionary whose adventurous spirit he has always admired. His pursuit begins by hitching a ride with the voyageurs who have canoed the rivers, transporting the tons of furs that feed the trade that has made the region a battleground of the French and British empires. Though Mark enters this brave new world with his conscience clean and his convictions sound, his encounters with a place and people he never could have imagined test his rigid upbringing. The backwoods of Canada have certainly led his sister astray; she has been excommunicated from the Society of Friends for running off with a non-Quaker. After her child is stillborn she runs again, deep into Indian country. On this increasingly desperate search, Mark finds himself among spies and domestic warriors, displaced natives, infidels, and the pious each engaged in their own battles to maintain their particular way of life. With Elphinstone’s crisp and effortless prose, coupled with her riveting, organic way with description, her fully drawn characters, and the history of the region, she “brings the landscapes and peoples of 1800s Canada back to thrilling life in her pacy, colorful and intelligent epic: the finest trip along these rivers since Brian Moore’s great Black Robe” (The Independent).

The Last Voyageurs

Lorraine Boissoneault
The Last Voyageurs Book PDF

Author : Lorraine Boissoneault
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781681771168

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The Last Voyageurs by Lorraine Boissoneault Pdf

Reid Lewis never wanted to be an ordinary French teacher. With the approach of the American Bicentennial, he decided to put his knowledge of French language and history to use in recreating the voyage of René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, the first European to travel from Montreal to the end of the Mississippi River. Lewis’ crew of modern voyageurs was comprised of 16 high school students and 6 teachers who learned to sew their own 17th-century clothing, paddle handmade canoes, and construct black powder rifles.Together they set off on an eight-month, 3,300-mile expedition across the major waterways of North America. They fought strong currents on the St. Lawrence, paddled through storms on the Great Lakes, and walked over 500 miles across the frozen Midwest during one of the coldest winters of the 20th century, all while putting on performances about the history of French explorers for communities along their route. The crew had to overcome disagreements, a crisis of leadership, and near-death experiences before coming to the end of their journey. The Last Voyageurs tells the story of this American odyssey, where a group of young men discovered themselves by pretending to be French explorers.

West of the Moon

Margi Preus
West of the Moon Book PDF

Author : Margi Preus
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781613125069

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West of the Moon by Margi Preus Pdf

In West of the Moon, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Margi Preus expertly weaves original fiction with myth and folktale to tell the story of Astri, a young Norwegian girl desperate to join her father in America. After being separated from her sister and sold to a cruel goat farmer, Astri makes a daring escape. She quickly retrieves her little sister, and, armed with a troll treasure, a book of spells and curses, and a possibly magic hairbrush, they set off for America. With a mysterious companion in tow and the malevolent “goatman” in pursuit, the girls head over the Norwegian mountains, through field and forest, and in and out of folktales and dreams as they steadily make their way east of the sun and west of the moon.

Voyageur

Eric Walters
Voyageur Book PDF

Author : Eric Walters
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781770499935

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Voyageur by Eric Walters Pdf

Brian, his mom, and his sister Jennie have left their Manhattan home for a canoe trip in Northern Quebec in order to scatter the ashes of Brian's father, whose most cherished memories were of his childhood summers spent at a boy scout camp. Although the trip starts out well enough, it soon becomes clear that the 3 are in over their heads-literally, in Brian's case-when they take a wrong turn into rapids! It is only the quick action of an old man named Pierre that saves Brian from drowning. Seeing just how ill-equipped the family is to complete their journey safely, Pierre kindly offers to guide them to their destination. Along the way Brian faces his grief and his deepest fears of life without his father while developing a friendship with Pierre, who turns out to be somebody far more important than Brian could have imagined...

Shadow on the Mountain

Margi Preus
Shadow on the Mountain Book PDF

Author : Margi Preus
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781613123782

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Shadow on the Mountain by Margi Preus Pdf

“Newbery Honor winner Preus . . . delivers a riveting story about teenage freedom fighters in WWII Norway” (Publishers Weekly). After Nazi Germany invades and occupies Norway, fourteen-year-old Espen and his friends are swept up in the Norwegian resistance movement. Espen gets his start by delivering illegal newspapers, then graduates to the role of courier and finally becomes a spy, dodging the Gestapo along the way. During five years under the Nazi regime, Espen, his sister, and their parents live in fear of nighttime raids and arrests, and they begin to question the loyalties of the people around them. Espen gains—and loses—friends, falls in love, and makes one small mistake that threatens to catch up with him as he sets out to escape on skis over the mountains to Sweden . . . Award-winning author Margi Preus crafts a thrilling adventure based on the real-life experiences of Erling Storrusten, a Norwegian spy during World War II. Praise for Shadow on the Mountain “Engrossing. . . . This is at once a spy thriller, a coming-of-age story, and a chronicle of escalating bravery. Multidimensional characters fill this gripping tale that keeps readers riveted to the end.” —School Library Journal, starred review “A morally satisfying page turner.” —Kirkus Reviews

Voyageur

Robert Twigger
Voyageur Book PDF

Author : Robert Twigger
Publisher : George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.)
ISBN : 0297829815

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Voyageur by Robert Twigger Pdf

Fifteen years before Lewis and Clarke Scotsman Alexander Mackenzie, looking to open up a trade route, set out from Lake Athabasca in central Northern Canada in search of the Pacific Ocean. Mackenzie travelled by bark canoe and had a cache of rum and a crew of Canadian voyageurs, hard-living backwoodsmen, for company. Two centuries later, in a spirit of organic authenticity, Robert Twigger follows in Mackenzie's wake. He too travels the traditional way, having painstakingly built a canoe from birchbark sewn together with pine roots, and assembled a crew made up of fellow travelers, ex-tree-planters and a former sailor from the US Navy. After the ice has melted, Twigger and his crew of wandering spirits finally nose out into the Athabasca River . . . Three Years . . . two thousand miles . . .over one thousand painfully towing the canoe against the current . . . several had tried before them but they were the first people to successfully complete Mackenzie's diabolical route over the Rockies in a birchbark canoe since 1793. Subsisting on a diet of porridge, elk and jackfish, supplemented with whisky and a bag of grass for the treeplanters, and with an Indian medicine charm bestowed by the Cree People of Fox Lake, the voyageurs embark on an epic road trip by canoe . . . a journey to the remotest parts of the wilderness, through Native American reservations, over mountains, through rapids and across lakes, meeting descendants of Mackenzie and unhinged Canadian trappers, running out of food, getting lost and miraculously found again, disfigured for life (the ex-sailor loses his thumb), bears brown and black, docile and grizzly. Voyageur is a moving tale of contrasts from the bleak industrial backwaters of Canada to the desolate wonder of the Rocky Mountains.

Village of Scoundrels

Margi Preus
Village of Scoundrels Book PDF

Author : Margi Preus
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781613125076

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Village of Scoundrels by Margi Preus Pdf

Based on the true story of the French villagers in WWII who saved thousands of Jews, this novel tells how a group of young teenagers stood up for what is right. Among them is a young Jewish boy who learns to forge documents to save his mother and later goes on to save hundreds of lives with his forgery skills. There is also a girl who overcomes her fear to carry messages for the Resistance. And a boy who smuggles people into Switzerland. But there is always the threat that they will be caught: A policeman is sent to keep an eye on them, German soldiers reside in a local hotel, and eventually the Gestapo arrives, armed with guns and a list of names. As the knot tightens, the young people must race against time to bring their friends to safety.

Big and Little

Cheryl Pilgrim
Big and Little Book PDF

Author : Cheryl Pilgrim
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780823440214

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Big and Little by Cheryl Pilgrim Pdf

Enormous Big and tiny Little, two adorable dogs, go over and under, deep and shallow, in and out in pursuit of a butterfly. A simple book that introduces the important concept of opposites to the very youngest readers. Loveable Big and effervescent Little opposite in size--and the way they see and navigate the world--as they follow a butterfly. Their journey is told entirely through pairs of opposite words and gentle artwork, and it's full of surprises, including an unexpected run-in with a cranky bear. Fortunately, Big and Little get from here to there and safely home again, just in time for a well-earned rest. The charming narrative arc that runs throughout the story really sets this book apart from other "opposites" books.

The Voyageur

Grace Lee Nute
The Voyageur Book PDF

Author : Grace Lee Nute
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780873517065

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The Voyageur by Grace Lee Nute Pdf

Nute's best-selling book portrays the indefatigable French-Canadian canoemen, whose labors were vital to the fur trade and whose influence reaches us through the colorful songs, place names, customs, and legends they left behind.

The Broken Blade

William Durbin
The Broken Blade Book PDF

Author : William Durbin
Publisher : New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub.
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780440411840

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The Broken Blade by William Durbin Pdf

In 1800, 13-year-old Pierre La Page never imagined he'd be leaving Montreal to paddle 2,400 miles. It was something older men, like his father, did. But when Pierre's father has an accident, Pierre quits school to become a voyageur for the North West Company, so his family can survive the winter. It's hard for Pierre as the youngest in the brigade. From the treacherous waters and cruel teasing to his aching and bloodied hands, Pierre is miserable. Still he has no choice but to endure the trip to Grand Portage and back.

Making the Voyageur World

Carolyn Podruchny
Making the Voyageur World Book PDF

Author : Carolyn Podruchny
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803287907

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Making the Voyageur World by Carolyn Podruchny Pdf

Through a detailed analysis of their unique occupational culture, Making the Voyageur World reexamines the French Canadian workers who dominated the fur trade industry and became iconic images of North American lore.

The Little Book of Snowflakes

Kenneth George Libbrecht
The Little Book of Snowflakes Book PDF

Author : Kenneth George Libbrecht
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Snowflakes
ISBN : 1610605322

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The Little Book of Snowflakes by Kenneth George Libbrecht Pdf

Following the success of "The Snowflake: Winter's Secret Beauty", this companion gift book features new, super-detailed photographs of snowflakes, detailed captions containing the science behind their beauty, and literary quotes relating to snow and nature.

Enchantment Lake

Margi Preus
Enchantment Lake Book PDF

Author : Margi Preus
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781452944630

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Enchantment Lake by Margi Preus Pdf

Midwest Book Award Winner — Young Adult Fiction A disturbing call from her great aunts Astrid and Jeannette sends seventeen-year-old Francie far from her new home in New York into a tangle of mysteries. Ditching an audition in a Manhattan theater, Francie travels to a remote lake in the northwoods where her aunts’ neighbors are “dropping like flies” from strange accidents. But are they accidents? On the shores of Enchantment Lake in the woods of northern Minnesota, something ominous is afoot, and as Francie begins to investigate, the mysteries multiply: a poisoned hotdish, a puzzling confession, eerie noises in the bog, and a legendary treasure said to be under enchantment—or is that under Enchantment, as in under the lake? At the center of everything is a suddenly booming business in cabin sales and a road not everyone wants built. To a somewhat reluctant northwoods Nancy Drew, the intrigue proves irresistible, especially when it draws her closer to the mysteries at the heart of her own life. What happened to her father? Who and where is her mother? Who is she, and where does her heart lie—in the bustle of New York City or the deep woods of Minnesota? With its gripping story, romantic spirit, and a sly dash of modern-day trouble (including evil realtors and other invasive species), Enchantment Lake will fascinate readers, providing precisely the charm that Margi Preus’s fans have come to expect.