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Donner Dinner Party: Bigger & Badder Edition

A Pioneer Tale
By Nathan Hale
Series: Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales
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Donner Dinner Party: Bigger & Badder Edition by Nathan Hale is a captivating graphic novel for children that delves into the harrowing journey of the Donner Party as they navigate their treacherous path across the American West. The book expertly blends history with illustration, making it accessible and engaging for young readers, while highlighting themes of survival, resilience, and the spirit of exploration. Without delving into spoilers, the story vividly captures the challenges faced by this infamous group during their ill-fated expedition.
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This book may appeal to you if you're intrigued by adventure and want to learn about historical events in an engaging and fun way, especially tailored for young readers. It's a captivating mix of history and storytelling, complete with humour and illustrations that bring the past to life in a way that's accessible and entertaining for children.

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The Reed family struggles to survive the wagon train journey from Illinois to California as members of the ill-fated Donner Party.

A deluxe, oversized edition of the original Donner Dinner Party graphic novel--with 16 pages of new material!

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In author-illustrator Nathan Hale’s Donner Dinner Party: Bigger & Badder Edition, experience the hit New York Times bestselling Hazardous Tale graphic novel in a deluxe, oversized edition featuring 16 brand-new pages of bonus material!

In the spring of 1846, a group of families left Illinois and began the long journey to California. To save time, they took an ill-advised shortcut—with disastrous consequences.

Bad weather, bad choices, and just plain bad luck forced the pioneers to spend a long, cold winter in the mountains, slowly starving. What they did to stay alive and the lengths that others went to in order to rescue them make this one of the most tragic and infamous stories of the American frontier.

Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales! Read them all—if you dare!

One Dead Spy: A Revolutionary War Tale (#1)
Big Bad Ironclad!: A Civil War Tale (#2)
Donner Dinner Party: A Pioneer Tale (#3)
Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood: A World War I Tale (#4)
The Underground Abductor: An Abolitionist Tale about Harriet Tubman (#5)
Alamo All-Stars: A Texas Tale (#6)
Raid of No Return: A World War II Tale of the Doolittle Raid (#7)
Lafayette!: A Revolutionary War Tale (#8)
Major Impossible: A Grand Canyon Tale (#9)
Blades of Freedom: A Tale of Haiti, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase (#10)
Cold War Correspondent: A Korean War Tale (#11)
Above the Trenches: A WWI Flying Ace Tale (#12)

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781419749070

Publisher: Abrams

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 13 October 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Amulet Books

Illustration: two-colour illustrations

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 187.0mm

Height: 187.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 144

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About the Author

Nathan Hale is the #1 New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of the Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales series. He also wrote and illustrated the graphic novels One Trick Pony and Apocalypse Taco. Hale lives in Utah, and you can find him online.

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