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HISTORICAL FICTION AMERICA - THE CALIFORNIAN GOLD RUSHES
The Ballad Of Lucy Whipple (Karen Cushman – author of The Midwife’s Apprentice) $6 PB EC When California Morning Whipple's widowed mother uproots her family from their comfortable Massachusetts environs and moves them to a rough mining camp called Lucky Diggins in the Sierras, California Morning resents the upheaval. Desperately wanting to control something in her own life, she decides to be called Lucy, and as Lucy she grows and changes in her strange and challenging new environment. Here Karen Cushman helps the American Gold Rush spring to colorful life, just as she did for medieval England in her previous two books, Catherine, Called Birdy and The Midwife's Apprentice, which won Newbery Honor status and a Newbery Medal respectively. For ages 8-12.
Twist Of Gold (Michael Morpurgo) $5 HBDJ EC History and wonder combine in this novel that uses the Irish potato famine of 1847 as its core. Readers will come away from it with an understanding of the dreadful conditions in Ireland that prompted so many to find a new life in America. Sean O'Brien, 13, and his 10-year-old sister, Annie, leave their ravaged homeland and following an eventful sea voyage from Cork to Boston, the youngsters struggle across a rough, new America to find their father in California. 9+
Danger On The Trail (Mildred Houghton Comfort) $2 PB FC (Cover moderate wear, pages lightly tanned, light water stain) When Jane’s family joined the gold rush to California, they didn’t realize how hard the trail west would be. Now it is too late to turn back. Can they survive the quicksand, the stampeding buffaloes, the Indian war parties? And even if they do reach California, will they be in time to find gold? 10+