Author

Publication

2002 - Wendy Lamb Books, New York, N.Y, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

61,500 words, Guess

Page Count

246 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivecharlottesrose00cann
  • ISBN-100385729669
  • ISBN-100385900570
  • ISBN-139780385729666
  • ISBN-139780385900577
and 4 more
  • Goodreads842625
  • Library of Congress Control Number2002000427
  • Better World Books9780385729666
  • Open LibraryOL3551517M

Classifications

  • DDC[Fic]
  • LCCPZ7.C17135 Ch 2002
  • LCCPZ7.C17135Ch 2002

Description

*"I will carry that baby to Zion,” I shout at them, “just see if I don’t!” Well! I did it! I have left them all quite speechless.* In 1856, 12-year-old Charlotte and her widowed father are members of a Welsh handcart company on the Mormon Trail, so poor they cannot afford wagons but must push carts from Iowa City to Utah. When a woman in the company dies giving birth, and her husband is too distraught to care for the baby girl, Charlotte grandly offers to care for the baby, whom she names Rose. But taking care of Rose turns out to be much harder than Charlotte expected. She’s stuck; she can’t give Rose back. As she struggles along the trail with the infant, she comes to love Rose, and to dream of life with “her” baby, even though Papa and others remind her that she will have to give Rose back to her father when they part ways at the end of the trail.

Description

As a twelve-year-old Welsh immigrant carries a motherless baby along the Mormon Trail in 1856, she comes to love the baby as her own and fear the day the baby's father will reclaim her.

Subjects

Topics

BabiesFictionHistoryMormonsImmigrantsMormon ChurchJuvenile fiction

Times

Genres

  • Fiction
  • Juvenile fiction

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