by Kathryn Lasky · Tapa dura · ISBN 9782070570386
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«En route vers le Nouveau monde» is Kathryn Lasky's historical novel for young readers, published by Gallimard jeunesse in hardcover (189 pages, in French).
Esther Patience Whipple recounts in her diary the voyage aboard the Mayflower to the shores of Plymouth. The newly established colony suffers from food shortages and several epidemics; the help of Indigenous peoples enables the settlers to survive, in a story of cultural exchange during the seventeenth century.
Part of the «Dear America» series, published in France in the «Mon Histoire» collection. Original title: «A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple» (1996).
For young readers and students interested in the history of colonial America and in survival stories told as diaries.
Kathryn Lasky is an American children's writer who also writes for adults under the names Kathryn Lasky Knight and E. L. Swann. Her children's books include several Dear America books, The Royal Diaries books, Sugaring Time, The Night Journey, Wolves of the Beyond, and the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series. Her awards include Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature, National Jewish Book Award, and Newbery Honor.
