Red River Girl

It's August 1846 in the northern Midwest territory and Josette Dupre has just turned thirteen. The daughter of a French trader and an Ojibwe woman, she has bigger dreams than most girls of the day, dreams of traveling East for a higher education. But these dreams come to an abrupt halt when her mother dies. Soon after the funeral, her restless father decides to lead a wagon train traveling south to St. Paul. Now Josette must face the reality of abandoning her dreams and leaving behind everything connected with her mother's memory. In this engaging historical novel, a determined young girl struggles not only with the savage wilderness in which her family is forced to make a home, but with the knowledge that there is no going back.