Lightning tree

By Sarah Dunster

Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life, Fiction, christian, historical, Fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, fiction, Utah, fiction, Orphans, Mormon pioneers, Mormon girls

Description: Fifteen-year-old Maggie survives the trek across the plains to Utah Territory only to lose her parents, her older brother, and her baby sister. She and her sister are taken in the Aldens, but the girls know something is amiss when they find their mother's china locked in Ma Alden's trunk.