Bound To Stay Bound

		Sarah journeys west : an Oregon Trail survival story (Girls Survive)  Author: Smith, Nikki Shannon  Publisher:  Stone Arch (2020)  Classification: Fiction  Physical Description: 105 p., ill.  BTSB No: 827206  ISBN: 9781496587183  Ages: 8-12  Grades: 3-7  Subjects:  African Americans  -- Fiction  Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Fiction  Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction  Survival skills -- Fiction  Family life -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction  Oregon National Historic Trail -- Fiction  California -- Gold discoveries -- Fiction  West (U.S.) -- History -- 1848-1860 -- Fiction
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Summary:
In 1851 twelve-year-old Sarah is a free Black, happy living with her parents, grandparents, and brother on their own farm in Iowa; but her father has been bitten by the gold bug and wants to take the trail west to California, and after some argument it is decided that the the grandparents will stay on the farm, but the rest of the family will go; the journey will be difficult and dangerous, but if they survive extreme weather, difficult terrain, illness, and the racism of others in the group there may be a better life waiting for them at the end of the trail.