A Heart for Any Fate: Westward to Oregon, 1845 - Softcover

Crew, Linda

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9780875952994: A Heart for Any Fate: Westward to Oregon, 1845

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ISBN 10: 0875952992 ISBN 13: 9780875952994

Publisher: Oregon Historical Society Pr, 2005

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Follows headstrong, optimistic, seventeen-year-old Lovisa King and her pioneer family, three generations strong, as they make the arduous journey west with a wagon train along the Oregon Trail.

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"What Crew has accomplished in A Heart for Any Fate is a tale that should make a place for itself in the classics of western historical fiction. This is a story for the whole family to enjoy, a pioneer saga with a heroine as plucky, articulate, and entertaining as only a young adventurer can be." -- The Advocate

About the Author:

""""The approach I take with my writing is to have my work reflect real life, and yet be shaped into the best story possible. I feel that a powerful piece of fiction can often convey an emotional truth more compellingly than a strictly factual version.""""--Linda Crew
Linda Crew is a recipient of the IRA Children's Book Award and the Golden Kite Award, and her books have been named ALA Notables as well as ALA Best Books.
Linda Crew didn't always have to be a writer. In fact, while attending junior high school in the early sixties, this award-winning author wanted to be a folksinger. By high school, when it bad become apparent to her that she really couldn't sing, she decided to become an actress. Then, at the University of Oregon, her theatrical ambitions evaporated. At her mother's suggestion, Crew switched her major to journalism--and loved it.
Crew's training was in journalism--interviewing, researching, and marketing--and she was encouraged to present the facts accurately and without fuss. But her assigmnents always ended up full of dialogue and she ""had this compelling urge to make a story just a little better than the way it happened."" Thus, her talent for writing fiction was born.
After college, Linda Crew married her husband Herb and settled on a farm in her home state of Oregon, where the couple still resides today with their three children. Crew leads a full, busy life and admits, ""It's difficult sometimes to carve out the time for writing with so many other demands, but it's important for me to do some living. After all, what could a person possibly write about if she spent all day closeted in front of her computer?""

Book List
""
Long Time Passing""
""Children of the River""
An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
An IRA Children's Book Award
A Golden Kite Award
New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age
""Fire on the Wind""
Maine Student Book Award Master List 1996-1997
Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award Master List 1996-1997
""Nekomah Creek""
An ALA Notable Children's Book
""Nekomah Creek Christmas""
Author Fun Facts
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Previous jobs: ""Florist, mail carrier, visitor center receptionist for the Forest Service at Cape Perpetua

""Pets: ""One lively black cat named Goblin

""Favorite . . .

,"""","" . hobbies? I like theater. I enjoy working with dried flowers, also sewing, especially creative things like doll clothes and costumes. I am notorious in my house for going overboard on costumes!
. . . foods? chocolate!
. . . clothes to wear? jeans or long dresses
. . . colors? green, of course! I'm an Oregonian.
. . . books? good children's books

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