Lewis and Clark...and Jodie, Freddi, and Samantha by Jon Scieszka

Author:Jon Scieszka
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-08-17T04:00:00+00:00

“Is your friend okay?” he asked, sensing my distress.

“Yeah, she’s fine,” Samantha said. “She’s just not too thrilled about the snow.”

“I thought the grizzlies were givin’ us a hard time,” Clark replied. “But this snow beats all. We have got to get to the other side of this mountain. Today.”

The mountain he was talking about was: (a) enormous, (b) far away, and (c) covered in—you guessed it—SNOW.

“Isn’t there some shortcut we could take?” Samantha suggested. “I mean—did you check a map?”

“Map?” Clark said with a laugh. “There is no map. I’m drawing it as we go.”

He pulled out a large piece of rolled-up paper and opened it. The right and left sides of the map were filled in with the names of states, major landforms, and bodies of water. But the middle part of the map was practically empty, except for some recent sketches. Clark was filling in the map as the group traveled.

“See,” Clark said, pointing to a river on the filled-in part of the map. “If we can just get to the Columbia River, we’ll be Yankee doodle dandy. It’s a trading route, so we can grab ourselves a couple of canoes and paddle to the Pacific. And then, that’s it—we’re done.”

“Except for the gettin’-back-home part,” he added as he rolled up the map.

The scary news was starting to sink in: We were in totally uncharted territory.

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