Nancy Oswald

Nothing Here but Stones

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"At first I thought everything in America would look like New York City, with shops and crowded streets, but I have discovered, the farther west we travel, that there are long stretches of nothing. Absolutely nothing. I only hope the place we are going to is not so empty." ¿¿Nancy Oswald's first work of historical fiction is based on a Russian Jewish colony that settled in Cotopaxi, Colorado, in 1882. Told from the viewpoint of eleven-year-old Emma, the book vividly portrays the hardships and struggles of the colony. The settlers were promised housing and rich ground for farming. Instead, the land is rocky and of poor quality. The houses are small and unfinished, and the colonists lack equipment and livestock for tilling and planting. The actual Jewish settlers faced many of the same hardships that Emma and her family did. There was an early frost, and the crops were stunted. The colonists were threatened by marauding bears and visited in the winter by starving Indians, who came to their doors begging for food.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Filter Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 265g
• ISBN-13: 9780865411500
• ISBN-10: 0865411506
• Artikelnr.: 66877312

Autorenporträt

Nancy Oswald is an award-winning author, speaker, and retired elementary teacher. She writes middle grade and young adult historical fiction set in Colorado.Her other Filter Press titles include: Nothing Here but Stones, Hard Face Moon, Rescue in Poverty Gulch, and Trouble on the Tracks. Nancy lives on a working cattle ranch in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of Colorado. Contact her for presentations, school visits, and signings through her website, http://www.NancyOswald.com or by emailing [e-mail]