Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie by Kristiana Gregory

I’m sure that I would’ve enjoyed this book even more if I’d read it as a kid, but I still enjoyed the story and I was pleasantly surprised by how accurate this story was. I loved the Dear America series as a kid and since I live in Oregon, I had to extensively study the Oregon Trail growing up. TW// death (including mothers, children, and animals - deaths were by poison, murders, drownings, etc.), racism, brief mentions of fatphobia and ableism, violence (scalpings, shootings,etc.), child marriage, pedophilia, suicide, mentions of cannabalism She's trying to learn to knit, but isn't yet having much success.Ĭheck out Kristiana's blogs at for behind-the-scenes stories about her books, and with photos from her childhood. In her spare time she loves to swim, walk, hike, read, and hang out with friends. Kristiana and her husband have two adult sons, and live in Idaho with their two golden retrievers. **THE WAITING LIGHT: CLEMENTINE'S STORY - originally titled 'My Darlin' Clementine' this riveting historical mystery takes place in an Idaho mining camp of 1866, and was Idaho's representative for the 2010 National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Library of Congress.

**CABIN CREEK MYSTERIES #7: THE PHANTOM OF HIDDEN HORSE RANCH **ORPHAN RUNAWAYS: THE PERILOUS ESCAPE TO BODIE New re-releases in ebooks and paperback on Amazon: Her most recent title with Scholastic's Dear America series is CANNONS AT DAWN, a sequel to the best-selling THE WINTER OF RED SNOW, which was made into a movie for the HBO Family Channel. 2' with the celebrated 'Paper Monument', a futuristic book-banning with horrific consequences.īRONTE'S BOOK CLUB is set in a town by the sea and is inspired by the girls' book club Kristiana led for several years.

Several of Kristiana's titles are now available on Kindle including 'Curiously Odd Stories: Vol. JENNY OF THE TETONS won the Golden Kite Award in 1989 and was the first of two-dozen historical novels for middle grade readers. Gregory achieves a realistic, rich atmosphere with insightful details about the immigration process and New York tenements in the early 1900s.' Now available on Kindle and in paperback. Her award-winning books include STALKED, which earned the 2012 Gold Medal for Young Adult Mystery from Literary Classics and is hailed as 'historical fiction with a thrilling twist.' KIRKUS calls it 'an atmospheric confection that will thrill YA readers. She's had a myriad of odd jobs: telephone operator, lifeguard, camp counselor, reporter, book reviewer & columnist for the LA Times, and finally author. Her first rejection letter at age ten was for a poem she wrote in class when she was supposed to be doing a math assignment. She's always loved to make up stories, telling her younger siblings whoppers that would leave them wide-eyed and shivering. Kristiana Gregory grew up in Manhattan Beach, California, two blocks from the ocean.

Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie by Kristiana Gregory