The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep: Voices from the Donner Party

by Allan Wolf

Book Overview

In powerful, vivid verse, the master behind The Watch That Ends the Night recounts one of history's most harrowing--and chilling--tales of survival.

In 1846, a group of emigrants bound for California face a choice: continue on their planned route or take a shortcut into the wilderness. Eighty-nine of them opt for the untested trail, a decision that plunges them into danger and desperation and, finally, the unthinkable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763663247
• ISBN13: 9780763663247
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.7" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher

Customer Reviews

It was ok

The highlights were all the narrations from the perspective of Hunger. Those were great. All the others? Eh? Ok. Kind of got overshadowed.