Description
Serialized in more than 100 newspapers as part of The Breakfast Serials program, this gripping pioneer odyssey is full of rich period detail and suspense. Jesse is thrilled when Papa decides the family should leave their failing Illinois farm to return to Grandma in Kentucky. But no sooner is the journey underway than both Mama and Papa sicken and die, leaving Jesse, her older brother Moses, and younger siblings Louisa and Solomon alone in a hardscrabble pioneer world where orphans have no rights. At any time, they can be "bound out", snatched up like stray chickens and forced to live like slaves until they are grown. Whom can they trust? Can they find their way on the long journey back to Grandma? And who's to say that if they do she won't be gone -- just like Mama and Papa?
