Tag: Donner Party

With the S.T.E.A.M. lessons now complete, this week I’ll query agents to represent my middle-grade historical fiction book,  California Trail Discovered, as well as book two in the series geared for YA readers, Yosemite Discovered.

I’m excited to move forward with my new middle grade historical fiction work in progress, tentatively titled, All That Glitters. Yesterday I visited Oak Hill Memorial Cemetery, the final resting place for several people from the Donner party, including Virginia Reed, who was thirteen when she came West with her mother, stepfather, and siblings. In my middle …[ read more ]