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The illustrations in this book were created using watercolor and

colored pencil on Fabriano hot press paper.

Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for and may be obtained

from the Library of Congress.

ISBN 978-1-4197-2839-6
eISBN 978-1-68335-290-7

Text and illustrations copyright 2018 Jennifer Thermes
Cover illustration Jennifer Thermes

Book design by Pamela Notarantonio

Published in 2018 by Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS.

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,

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For Dad, who taught me

to keep going

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Between eleven children, the clothes to wash, the

cow to milk, the garden to tend, the occasional tramp

passing through to feed, and one husband, Emma

Gatewood rarely got a break. But, sometimes, she

found a way to escape.

A long ramble through the hills behind the farm

was all Emma needed to set her heart right again.

In the spring of 1955, when Emma was

sixty-seven years old and her children had

all grown up, she left her home in Ohio and

set out to walk the Appalachian Trail.

Called the longest footpath in the world, the trail stretched along

the mountaintops from Georgia to Maine. Emma had read about it in

a magazine. The magazine said no woman had ever hiked the entire

length, and that it was easy. Besides, it was what she wanted to do.

Emma didnt tell her family where she was going, but no one worried.

After years of hard work on the farm, they knew that Emma could

take care of herself.

Emma wore canvas sneakers and carried a homemade sack, packed lightly.

She ate berries from the side of the trail and drank from cold mountain

springs. She rested under trees and on top of rocks warmed by a fire.

Some nights, the sky was so big and dark that Emma was afraid to sleep.

Other nights, she curled up on a soft bed of leaves, with plenty of mice to

keep her company.

Emma hoped to avoid meeting a bear...

... but she did, once, and chased him

off

by hollering as loud as she could.

The trail ran over hills, across streams, alongside roads,

and through small towns. At times, the woods felt like a

long, green tunnel. Sometimes Emma lost her way, but

even without a map, she always found it back again.

Some mountain farmers didnt know what to make of Emma,

with her hair like a wild woman after days and nights on the trail.

But most gave her supper and a cozy place to sleep. She often

found the kindliest welcome from the poorest of families.

Word traveled as she wound her way north, and Emma soon

became known as Grandma Gatewood.

Emma scrambled up and down steep hills carved by glaciers that had

melted millions of years ago. The trail wasnt quite as easy as that

magazine article had said.

For some fool reason they always lead you right up over the biggest

rock to the top of the biggest mountain they can find, said Emma.

The weather turned from brisk and windy to hot and sticky

and buggy!to soaking wet to sunny, sometimes within a few

hours. But Emma kept walking.

Some days were rather dull. Other days...

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