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Heat lightning streaks across the dark Vermont sky. Little does Daniel, who will soon turn twelve, realize a June blizzard is roaring out of Canada right toward the Barker farm. Knee-deep snow will bury gardens and crops across New England. In July, ice floats in Pennsylvania ponds. Welcome to 1816, the Year Without Summer, or Starving Year, triggered by the violent, volcanic explosion of Mt. Tambora. Fearing the weather has permanently turned cold, the Barkers join others heading west with hopes for a new beginning on the frontier. Steep mountains, a pirate den at Cave-in-Rock, and dangers on the mighty Mississippi await them.__________Inspired by the Barker family's 1817 journey west.

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Susan Barker is a retired science educator and naturalist with a love for early American history. A direct descendant of at least two Revolutionary War veterans, her family journeyed to the forgotten frontier, also known as Illinois Country, in the spring of 1818. Since then, nine generations of her family have called beautiful southwestern Illinois home. In her free time, she enjoys canoeing on slow moving rivers, gazing at the night sky, and watching nature and history documentaries on PBS.

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