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Title: Footsteps in the Snow: The Red River Diary of Isobel Scott (Dear Canada)
ISBN: 0439988357
Author:
Carol Matas
Publicate Date: 2002-01
Publish: 2002-01
List Price: $69.35
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Hardcover
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1: Adventure of a Lifetime!
Isobel Scott is a Selkirk settler and she is struggling with her family to finally be able to live at The Forks. With his wife dead, Isobel's widowed father marries an Native, White Loon. This new family tries to survive the feezing winters and boiling summers on a harsh journey to live at The Forks. Find out if the Scotts actually make it to the Red River Settlement by reading this great novel!
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2: A good book from the Dear Canada series.
This book is one of the Dear Canada series, which are historical novels, written in diary format, about fictional girls during different periods of Canadian history.
Twelve-year-old Isobel Scott begins her diary at sea in July 1815, as her family travels from Scotland to Canada, hoping for a better life. Her mother has just died, and Isobel feels lost without her. When they finally reach Canada, a long journey overland to where they will settle still lies ahead. After two months they finally reach their destination, only to be told they must turn back because there are not enough supplies for them to spend the winter there. Isobel continues to describe in her diary her life over the next year as her family suffers many hardships while trying to build their new life.
This was a very good book from the Dear Canada series, although not among my top favorites. I really enjoyed the early 1800s setting, and Isobel's diary narrative was interesting and moved along well. I'd recommend this book to readers who enjoy historical diary fiction.
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3: Footsteps in the Snow
This is the diary of Isobel Scott. On the way over from Scotland, Isobel's mother dies. The reason her family came over is that they could have a better life. Isobel thinks of Mansions and servants... she was definately wrong! She found a diary in her mother's trunk and decided to write it in her mother's memory and that's how this starts. Isobel has an older brother named James, and younger brother named Robbie. Isobel pretty much takes over the job of being their mother by washing, mending things, etc. and she doesn't play or have fun like a young ought to. Kate, a girl she met on the ship, will not stop bugging and pestering her. Later in the diary Isobel starts to feel sorry for her and finds out why she does that, well, the pestering. On their journey, the company meets a village of Native Americans and befriend eachother. That is when she finally gets to have some fun and compete in a few games, and actually laugh. She also finds that she doesn't care that much for being waited upon, or having grand parties, but is fine the way she is living now. She also befriends a young Indian woman named White Loon... I better not say anything else! I hope this was helpful... it probably wasn't, buy hey, it works!
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