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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."
3) Jason's gold
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When news of the discovery of gold in Canada's Yukon Territory in 1897 reaches fifteen-year-old Jason, he embarks on a 10,000-mile journey to strike it rich.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"The tale of Buck, abducted and mistreated and his gradual adaptation to the wild is a much heralded celebration of the power of instinct and the natural world. This edition includes four short stories: 'The Son of the Wolf', 'To the Man on the Trail', 'The Wisdom of the Trail' and 'An Odyssey of the North'."--Amazon.com.
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.
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: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Determined to find his nineteen-year-old uncle and best friend, Jesse, who left for Colorado to find enough gold to pay the mortgage and save the family's Iowa farm, twelve-year-old Early Whittcomb joins up with a barber, his wife, and his daughter on a wagon train heading for the gold fields near Pike's Peak in 1858.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the wake of Dawson City's Great Fire of 1899, sixteen-year-old Jason and his girlfriend Jamie canoe the Yukon River across Alaska in an epic race from Canada's Klondike to the new gold fields at Cape Nome.
12) 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
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) 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.
18) 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.
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