{"title":"Victoria McKernan","description":"Shackleton's Stowaway was VICTORIA McKERNAN's first novel for young adults. She is also the author of four novels for adults.","products":[{"product_id":"the-devils-paintbox-paperback","title":"The Devil's Paintbox - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen almost-16-year-old Aiden Lynch and his little sister, Maddy, first meet trailrider Jefferson J. Jackson, they're eating clay and hunting grasshoppers on the remains of their family's drought-ravaged Kansas farm. In short, the two orphans are starving to death, so when this man Jackson offers an escape--a 2000-mile journey across the roughest country in the world--Aiden knows it's their only choice. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThey say there are a hundred ways to die on the Oregon Trail, and the long wagon journey is broken only by catastrophe: wolf attacks, tornadoes, rattlesnakes, deadly river crossings, Indians, and the looming threat of smallpox, \"the devil's paint.\" But with the sky a cornflower blue and the air sweet with new prairie grass, Aiden and Maddy and a hundred fellow travelers move forward with a growing hope, and the promise of a new life in the Washington Territory. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAdventure-filled and historically accurate, Victoria McKernan captures both the peril and stunning beauty of the frontier West in an epic American story at once sweeping and intimate, heartbreaking and hopeful.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50536680358111,"sku":"9780449816554","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/QGgMxSR9F59780449816554.webp?v=1783468562"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/victoria-mckernan.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}