Donner Dinner Party (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #3): A Pioneer Tale -- Nathan Hale, Hardcover

Discover the shocking and true story of the ill-fated Donner Party expedition with the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series

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 are graphic novels that tell the thrilling, shocking, gruesome, and TRUE stories of American history. Read them all--if you dare

Get Donner Dinner Party and two other Hazardous Tales in the Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales Second 3-Book Boxed Set, available now

Author: Nathan Hale
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 08/06/2013
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.70w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781419708565
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 2.7
Point Value: 2
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 160438 / Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: Donner Dinner Party

Award: Spur Awards - Finalist
Award: Cybils - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2013 pg. 131
Booklist 10/15/2013 pg. 39
New York Times Book Review 11/10/2013 pg. 38
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2014 pg. 79 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw

About the Author
Nathan Hale is the author of Big Bad Ironclad and One Dead Spy, as well as the illustrator of the graphic novel Rapunzel's Revenge, which was an Al Roker Book Club for Kids selection, an ALA notable book, a YALSA Great Graphic Novel for Teens, and the recipient of three starred reviews. He lives in Provo, Utah.