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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Shackleton's stowaway Shackleton's stowaway Victoria McKernan A fictionalized account of the adventures of eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow, who stowed away for the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition and, after their ship Endurance was crushed by ice, endur… OL15839804W
Son of fortune Son of fortune Victoria McKernan In mid-1860s San Francisco, sixteen-year-old Aiden gains a hoped-for chance at a change in fortune when he wins a ship in a poker game, but soon he is involved in Peru's savage guano trade and the ex… OL17875134W
The devil's paintbox The devil's paintbox Victoria McKernan In 1865, fifteen-year-old Aiden and his thirteen-year-old sister Maddy, penniless orphans, leave drought-stricken Kansas on a wagon train hoping for a better life in Seattle, but find there are still… OL24822511W
The Devil's Paintbox The Devil's Paintbox Victoria McKernan When orphans Aiden and Maddy Lynch first meet trailrider Jefferson J. Jackson in the spring of 1865, they're struggling to survive on their family's drought-ravaged Kansas farm. So when Jackson offer… OL3802175W