Donner Dinner Party: A Pioneer Tale
Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales Series
Author: Nathan Hale
Book 3 in the Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales series
Pages: 128
Published: 2013
Age: 8+
The Donner Party expedition is one of the most notorious stories in all of American history. It’s also a fascinating snapshot of the westward expansion of the United States, and the families and individuals who sacrificed so much to build new lives in a largely unknown landscape.
From the preparation for the journey to each disastrous leg of the trip, this book shows the specific bad decisions that led to the party’s predicament in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The graphic novel focuses on the struggles of the Reed family to tell the true story of the catastrophic journey.
New York Public Library's Children's Books list: 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing (2013); YALSA's Great Graphic Novels for Teens List (2014); Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People (2014)
About the Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales Series
Books in series order
- 1.One Dead Spy: A Revolutionary War Tale(2012)
- 2.Big Bad Ironclad! A Civil War Tale(2012)
- 3.Donner Dinner Party: A Pioneer Tale(2013)
- 4.Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood: A World War I Tale(2014)
- 5.The Underground Abductor: An Abolitionist Tale(2015)
- 6.Alamo All-Stars: A Texas Tale(2016)
- 7.Raid of No Return: A World War II Tale of the Doolittle Raid(2017)
- 8.Lafayette!(2018)
- 9.Major Impossible(2019)
- 10.Blades of Freedom: a Louisiana Purchase Tale(2020)
- 11.Cold War Correspondent: A Korean War Tale(2021)
- 12.Above the Trenches(2023)
Reading age: 8+ years
"I regret that I have but one life to give for my country."
These are the famous last words of Nathan Hale, a spy for the American rebels in the Revolutionary War.
But who was Nathan Hale? And how did the rebels defeat an army that was bigger, better, stronger and more heavily armed than they were? Find the answers to these questions, as well as many more stories of ingenuity, close calls with danger, and acts of heroism in Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales – a graphic novel series for middle-grade readers dedicated to telling the most thrilling, shocking, gruesome, and TRUE stories of American history. Read them all—if you dare!