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Traveling by covered wagon, young Rachel and her family follow the Oregon Trail from Illinois all the way to California. The terrain is rough and the seven-month trip is filled with adventure. Rachel's own handwritten journal chronicles every detail and features cherished "pasted-in" mementos gathered along the way.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 3-5-Ten-year-old Rachel records her family's trip west from Illinois to California in 1850. The girl's voice is fresh and enthusiastic; for her, the journey is filled with exciting new experiences. She learns to drive the wagon and crack the whip, climbs Courthouse Rock and views the sunset, and even cuts off her long red braids and trades them for an Indian pony. She does have occasional moments of contemplation, thinking about faraway relatives and friends. Overall, however, her journal paints a rosy picture of this dangerous voyage: there are some injuries but no serious illnesses or deaths, encounters with different Native Americans are all friendly, and Rachel's new baby sister arrives safely at the end. An author's note explains that the narrative is based on numerous children's diaries from the period, and that many of the writers viewed the trek as "one long adventure." The hand-lettered script and yellowed, lined-paper background create the look of a diary. Watercolor illustrations and notes in the margins add to the personal look of the book and often provide helpful supplementary information. Rachel's Journal is a good choice for those readers not quite ready to tackle the "Dear America" series (Scholastic) and for Laura Ingalls Wilder fans who want to read more about pioneer life.-Robin L. Gibson, Muskingum County Library System, Zanesville, OH (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
Moss extends the format she perfected in Amelia's Notebook and Amelia Writes Again to cover historical fiction in this solidly researched and wholly captivating illustrated diary "by" a 10-year-old girl who travels with her family along the Oregon Trail in 1850. The excitements and hardships of the seven-month journey spring vividly to life, whether Rachel is crossing the eerie, skeleton-strewn Nevada desert by moonlight, trading her long red braids for an Indian pony, eating flour soup when provisions get low, or awakening one morning to greet a new baby sister. Character sketchesof the shiftless Mr. Bridger; the oh-so-perfect Prudence Elias, bane of tomboy Rachel's days; sourpuss Mr. Henry Sunshine, whose wife, Louisa, providentially drops her dentures during a tense encounter with the Pawnee, frightening them awayare a sheer delight, adding depth, texture and, of course, humor. The language is equally colorful. One of the smaller children in Rachel's wagon party, for example, is "no bigger than a bar of soap after a week's wash." Moss shoehorns in an amazing amount of information, giving readers an excellent understanding of life on the trail. Lined sepia-toned pages give the book the look of an antique diary; and, in the style of the Amelia books, hand-lettered text and cleverly captioned thumbnail illustrations with a childlike sensibility add to the authentic feel. This engrossing glimpse of the westward movement is as good a choice for pleasure reading as it is a valuable classroom resource. Ages 8-12. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
For ten-year-old Rachel, the wagon train journey on the Oregon Trail is one adventure after another: lightning storms, dangerous river crossings, a broken axle, the birth of a baby sister, and more. Hand-printed and amply illustrated with cartoon drawings (like Moss's Amelia books), the text is based on actual experiences of pioneers traveling west between 1846 and 1868. From HORN BOOK Spring 1999, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
Moss (Amelia's Notebook, 1995) offers another hand-lettered diary, but this time goes back in history to 1850, for an account of a journey by wagon train from Illinois to California. In buoyant, gossipy, sometimes irreverent entries, ten-year-old Rachel records incidents (all, readers are assured, drawn from actual 19th-century journals) and observations at every stage, from the bustling Missouri River crossing (``Pa says it is so crowded you cannot find a place to piss in peace'') through the Sierra Nevadas, where the Donner Party came to grief, and on to a new home along the Sacramento. Passing many relics and remains of less- fortunate travelers, the group of families survives plenty of hardship, while Rachel enjoys a succession of personal adventures, switching to boys clothing when an ox eats her wool dress and trading her red hair for a Pawnee's pony. Printed on lined, sometimes stained paper, the text presents no legibility problems, and is enhanced by a plentitude of small colored drawings. Young armchair explorers will find Rachel an entertaining guide to the trails and trials of the westward movement. (map) (Fiction. 9-11)
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Gr. 3-6. The author of several diary novels, including Amelia Hits the Road (1997), employs the same style in this tale of a pioneer girl traveling west to California in 1850. Rachel records both guidebook particulars (ferrying across the Missouri River, climbing the Rockies, and tramping through scorching deserts) and personal details (an annoyingly perfect travel mate named Prudence, special treats for the Fourth of July, and the birth of a sister en route). The printed script simulates an authentic journal, and the many illustrative sidebars, margin notations, and drawings provide humor and additional information. Although the typeface is occasionally difficult to read and a few of the sidebars seem more suited to a work of nonfiction than to a novel, this will be useful in classes looking for textbook alternatives. (Reviewed October 1, 1998)0152018069Kay Weisman