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Author
Series
Circle of destiny volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1851 twelve-year-old Sarah is a free Black, happy living with her parents, grandparents, and brother on their own farm in Iowa; but her father has been bitten by the gold bug and wants to take the trail west to California, and after some argument it is decided that the grandparents will stay on the farm, but the rest of the family will go; the journey will be difficult and dangerous, but if they survive extreme weather, difficult terrain, illness,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
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 wife and money on their steamship journey from New York. Includes a historical note.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Her heart seeks safety. But will trouble find her even here? After her sister's marriage, Michelle Stiles is left hiding at Two Harts Ranch with the handsome but stubborn Zane Hart. She's managed to stay one step ahead of her stepfather and his devious plans, but if he finds her, she will no longer be safe.Zane has problems of his own. Having discovered a gold mine on his property, he must figure out how to harvest it without kicking off a gold rush....
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For fans of Ian McGuire's The North Water and Michael Punke's The Revenant, Child in the Valley by Gordy Sauer is a coming-of-age story set in the harsh landscape of Gold Rush America, centering on a orphan's journey to California in a wagon train of ruthless 49ers. Seventeen-year-old Joshua Gaines is suddenly orphaned in 1849, and after discovering that his foster father has left him deeply in debt, he flees his St. Louis home for Independence,...
Author
Series
California Gold Rush novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Annyrose relates her adventures with Joaqu�in Murieta and his band of outlaws in the California gold-mining region during the mid-1800s.
Author
Series
American diaries volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The small piece of gold which Anisett carries in her pocket causes grave danger for her family living in the rough world of the California gold camps.
15) Gold rush days
Author
Series
Hitty's travels volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hitty, a wooden doll, travels with ten-year-old Annie and her father from New York City to California in 1849 to search for gold and to start a new life.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two western stories: 'Silver Shells for General Kearney' takes place early in the Mexican War when a hunter bringing his furs to Santa Fe is mistaken for a courier transporting silver. Building a bridge over 'Satan's Keyhole' is Glenn Anders' opportunity to restore his reputation during the California Gold Rush, but the project seems doomed to fail"--
17) Truitt's truth
Author
Series
Love's pure gold volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Gold Rush is about to change lives forever. It's the booming California Gold Rush of 1849, and the toughest man in town is ready to face his truth. Truitt Emerson wants out. Enough fighting and terrorizing gold miners, he wants to leave Hangtown for good. But now, stranded with two young women from back East who his boss expects delivered to Hangtown, things just got worse. He'd like nothing more than to leave the thin, red-headed woman to the...
18) Cirque
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Bernadette McCoy's death is blamed on seven cats, but Police Chief Mad Dog Connolly believes an individual killed her. Sean Kelley attends the Cirque de D�elices and watches Angelique Aumont perform. He wants the beautiful Parisian rope walker for his traveling circus, and his wife, but she departs for America to live with her Auntie Bernadette. Hired by P. T. Barnum, Sean promotes singer Jenny Lind Barnum's Swedish Nightingale and assembles his...
Author
Series
Love's pure gold volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In 1851, being kidnapped off of a ship might be the worst thing for an innocent young woman. For Emery, she thought it was her salvation until the kidnappers only took her and left her younger sister on the ship. The angry miners seeking revenge on the greedy baron, Arnold Snider, who stole their savings in gold, believe they have kidnapped his wife. It's simple: if he gives their gold back, he can have his wife back. But how will the trade work...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The 1849 Gold Rush is no place for a refined young woman on her own, but Quinn MacCann plans to become a businesswoman, independent and capable of earning her own way. To escape her wealthy but abusive father with her inherited dowry intact, Quinn marries a stranger-a man so new to the area, her powerful father doesn't control him yet-but freedom and independence are more costly than she imagined. With her hopes and dreams buried deep by secrets,...
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