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Author
Series
California Gold Rush novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Jack and the butler stow away on a side-wheeler bound for California where they join the Gold Rush of 1849.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1849, a twelve-year-old girl who calls herself Lucy is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a small California mining town, where Lucy helps run a rough boarding house and looks for comfort in books while trying to find a way to get "home."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After gold was discovered in California in 1848, thousands of people rushed there to strike it rich. They faced tough choices at every turn. Now the choices are yours. Would you rather use the slower method of panning for gold or use a more dangerous method of hydraulic mining? Would you rather run a store or a hotel in a California boomtown? It's your turn to pick this or that!"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
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.
7) Gold fever!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes adventures and disasters in the lives of people who rushed to the gold mines of California in 1848 and explains how this event sparked the state's development.
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. maps ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Uses lighthearted illustrations and excerpts from letters, journals, and newspaper articles to relate the story of the California Gold Rush of 1848.
17) The gold rush
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
118 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Illustrates the event which drew thousands of people to California and its effect on the gold seekers, the Spanish settlers, and the native Indian tribes who lived there.
Author
Publisher
Enslow Elementary
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the California Gold Rush in American history, including the first discovery of gold, the 49ers, and how the gold rush changed the landscape of America.
19) Bandit's moon
Author
Series
California Gold Rush novels volume 2
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
136 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Annyrose relates her adventures with Joaquin Murieta and his band of outlaws in the California gold-mining region during the mid-1800s.
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