Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: Donner Dinner Party is a graphic novel based on a group of Illinois pioneers and their journey to California in 1846. The travelers are forced to spend the winter trapped in the mountains, slowly starving to death. Based on historical events, this is a shocking, gruesome story of what the pioneers did to survive.
My name is Ms. Atkinson and I am the librarian at Shawsville Middle School in Montgomery County, Virginia. I have been a school librarian for eleven years. My hope is that this blog will help my students at SMS find books that interest them and encourage them to read more.