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The Long Road to Boston

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 4, 5
Page count: 13

Author

Elizabeth
Coatsworth

Appeared in

Stories for Fun and Adventure

Story Summary

John, fifteen, and his little sister Molly, eight, walk the family turkey flock to Thanksgiving market in Boston sixty miles and twelve days away. But they get a late start and fear they might not beat the first snow.