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Away to the Goldfields!
Yearning for adventure and tired of farm life in New Hampshire, sixteen-year-old Mary Margaret Malarkey journeys to California in 1848 to find her father who arrived earlier to make his …
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Seeds of Hope
A diary account of fourteen-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon after losing his …
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The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung
A young Chinese boy nicknamed Runt records his experiences in a journal as he travels from southern China to California in 1852 to join his uncle during the Gold Rush.
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Anisett Lundberg
California 1851: Anisett and her mother and younger brother struggle to make a meager living by providing meals for miners in rough gold camps. Anisett resents the harshness of her …
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Carrie's Gold
Dreaming of a better life in her world of hard work and hand-me-downs, Carrie Benson is swept up by the California Gold Rush and joins a westbound wagon train, falling …
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California Gold
A delightful series focusing on the travels of Abby Kendall. Lots of surprises will keep 8- to 12-year-old girls coming back for more.
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Treasure in the Stream
The lives of ten-year-old Amy and the members of her farming family are changed forever when gold is discovered on Mr. Sutter's land.
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Caroline
When Caroline's brothers head West to find gold in California, she disguises herself as a boy and follows, but along the way she meets Dan Riddle and falls in love.
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H&d 3: Stephanie: Heart
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Saddles, Stars, and Stripes: Blackwater Creek
Erika Nagys and her family have come to California from Hungary in search of gold. When they cannot pay the rent, Erika must go and work for their nasty landlord, …
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Letters from the Corrugated Castle
Dear Cousin Sallie, I begin with words I never thought to write: I am not an orphan! Thirteen-year-old Eldora has always believed that her mother died when she was very …