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Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
146 p.; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When they are left with relatives while their father goes prospecting for gold in the Colorado mountains, ten-year-old Hattie and her older brother depend on their friendship with a recluse who lives nearby to make their lives bearable.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch pursue a vicious killer in the grittiest entry yet of the New York Times-bestselling series. After marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch lay Appaloosa's sheriff to rest, an emerging handful of men eagerly vie for the deceased sheriff's vacant office. No sooner are various campaigns under way when gold is discovered in the foothills just outside of town, sending Appaloosa buzzing with excitement. ...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A story of a dog whose life is changed forever. Kidnapped from his sunny California home, Buck is taken to the cold, hard world of the Klondike. Buck is hitched into the traces of a dog sled, but the traces cannot hold his spirit, his will, or his true nature--to be wild--to be free.
24) A night too dark
Author
Series
Kate Shugak mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
322 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an abandoned pickup truck complete with suicide note leads a search party to find human remains that have clearly served as a snack for a bear, case closed--suicide by Alaska. But things get complicated when the dead man stumbles out of the wilderness and onto Kate's homestead weeks later. Kate and Trooper Jim Chopin must unravel the story of the man and the body, whoever he is, which is wrapped up in the politics of the Suulutaq Mine, a gold...
25) Blackwater Creek
Author
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
151, xx p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Erika and her family moved from Hungary to California in search of gold, but in 1849, when they have trouble paying their rent, Erica goes to work tending horses for their landlord and forms a bond with one of her charges.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
45 p. : col. ill. ; 32 x 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
During the California Gold Rush of 1848, ten-year-old Estrella, who runs so fast she is called "la Estrella corriente," the running star, faces a group of greedy ghosts who have stolen her exotic pets to work in their gold mine.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hoping to strike it rich, eleven-year-old Jasper and his older brother Melvin set out on a treacherous journey to Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
In the "wild west" of an 1880s California gold-mining town, Angeline investigates the supposed murder of her father, a famous criminal lawyer, who she and her mother are certain is still alive. Includes historical notes and instructions for making a mask from muslin.
30) Fool's gold
Author
Series
The Skinners of Goldfield volume 1
Publisher
Crossway Books
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
31) Glorious
Author
Series
Cash McLendon novels volume 1
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Rising to a life of influence and wealth after a hard-luck youth in late nineteenth-century Arizona Territory, Cash McLendon flees in the wake of a tragedy and tries to win back the heart of a woman from his past only to be targeted by his former father-in-law.
Author
Series
Dog chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
160 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1900, a dog named Murphy wants to help Sally and Mama build a new life in Nome, but life in the mining town is not easy. Can the three of them find a home--and maybe a fortune?"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
35) Foxfire
Author
Publisher
Sears Readers Club
Pub. Date
c1950
Edition
[Book club ed.]
Physical Desc
346 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Lectorum
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
700L
Language
Español
Description
Un grupo de viajeros se traslada de Boston a California con la esperanza de encontrar oro.
Beginning on a sailboat from Boston, Jack and Praiseworthy search for adventures during the Gold Rush of 1849 in California.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
162 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the start of the Klondike gold rush of 1897, while traveling through Canada with her father, uncle and friends, twelve-year-old aspiring author Hetty tries to determine the identity of a thief.
38) Newsgirl
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
327 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1851 San Francisco is booming. 12-year-old Amelia Forrester has just arrived with her family and they are eager to make a new life in Phoenix City. But the mostly male town is not that hospitable to females and Amelia decides she will earn more money as a boy. Cutting her hair and donning a cap, she joins a gang of newsboys, selling Eastern newspapers for a fortune.
39) Lazlo's strike
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1983
Physical Desc
179 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Months of hard work and loneliness are rewarded when a young Hungarian immigrant finds a rich gold strike--but bringing his treasure to civilization proves to be a difficult and dangerous task.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Seeking to avenge the murder of her true love while on a dredge ship searching for gold, fifteen-year-old captain Poe Blythe becomes the architect of new defenses designed to destroy her enemies.
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