It's up to Mem to find Mama and Lily and bring them safely home. In a powerful companion novel to the highly acclaimed Journey to Nowhere, twelve-year-old Mem comes face-to-face with the hardships that befell the early settlers. Mem's struggles go from bad to worse when Mama and Lily disappear into the woods on a cold and stormy night. Now Papa must rely on young Mem to take care of her sister and brother, and especially her sick mother. And since the birth of baby Lily, Mama has been having terrible spells. Papa's crops are ruined by the severe frosts, so food is scarce. But their first summer in their new home proves more difficult than they ever imagined. In 1815 Remembrance "Mem" Nye and her family packed up their covered wagon and headed for the Genesee County in western New York for a better life.
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