cover image Going West

Going West

Jean Van Leeuwen. Puffin Books, $5.99 (48pp) ISBN 978-0-14-056096-1

A seven-year-old girl narrates her family's journey west; as PW said in a starred review, ""Like pages torn from a frontier journal, stirring sketches and lyrical text form a moving tribute"" to pioneer families. Ages 5-9. (Aug.)