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Snowshoe Thompson
SKU
002062
ISBN
9780064442060
Grade 2-4
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Description
Christmas is coming, and Danny's father is away digging for gold. Danny needs to get a letter to him, asking him to come home for Christmas. But the snow is so deep no one will carry the mail - no one except for Snowshoe Thompson. The tale of John "Snowshoe" Thompson, a Scandinavian immigrant to California in 1850s.
Publisher's Description of Snowshoe Thompson
Christmas is coming, and Danny's father is away digging for gold...
Danny wishes his dad would come home from Nevada for Christmas and writes him a letter to tell him so. When snow cuts off the mail until spring, only postman John Thompson can get through the Sierra Nevada Mountains to deliver his letter.
This tale is based on the true story of a Scandinavian immigrant in the 1850s who braved the long and treacherous journey over the mountains on skis to deliver bags of mail that often weighed over 100 pounds. Snowshoe Thompson managed to become a legend of the gold rush days.
Category Description for I Can Read Historical Fiction
I Can Read books bring interest and entertainment to the level of the emerging reader. While the series consists of books in all realms, we find the historical fiction our favorites.
Details
| Product Format: | Softcover Book |
|---|---|
| Brand: | HarperCollins |
| Author: | Nancy Smiler Levinson |
| Grades: | 2-4 |
| ISBN: | 9780064442060 |
| Length in Inches: | 8.5 |
| Width in Inches: | 5.5 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.1875 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 0.25 |
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