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199 pp.
| Farrar |
January, 1998 |
TradeISBN 0-374-32773-4
(3)
4-6
Fifteen-year-old Simon, who has lots of common sense but little book learning, narrates the story of how he makes his fortune by walking a huge flock of turkeys over a thousand miles from Missouri to Denver in 1860. Accompanied by a roguish mule driver and a runaway slave, Simon fends off turkey rustlers, a plague of locusts, and meets his long-lost pa along the way. Based on an actual event, this is a lively and entertaining story.