Emma's river

By Alison Hart

Subjects: Boats and boating, fiction, Steamboats, Missouri River, Fires, Fires, fiction, Voyages and travels, fiction, Mississippi River, Survival, Voyages and travels, Disasters, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Disasters, Missouri, fiction, History, Survival, fiction, Steamboat disasters

Description: In 1852, Emma, her pregnant mother and her pony board the steamboat Sally May to meet her father in St. Joseph, Missouri, but when the ship suddenly explodes in a fiery blaze, Emma and all onboard must fight for their survival in the icy waters of the Missouri River.