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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 24
Language
Español
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Un retrato palpitante de una época marcada por la violencia y la codicia, con entrañables personajes.
Eliza Sommers es una joven chilena que vive en Valparaíso en 1849, el año en que se descubre oro en California. Su amante, Joaquín Andieta, parte hacia el norte decidido a encontrar fortuna, y ella decide seguirlo. El viaje infernal, escondida en la cala de un velero, y la búsqueda de su amante en una tierra de hombres solos y prostitutas atraídos...
Author
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to the California frontier in this sweeping, romantic tale of a displaced New England suffragette, a former Union soldier disinherited by his Southern family, and the town they join forces to save. 1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the farthest thing from her mind. Banished from Boston by her wealthy stepfather,...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1881, the scrappy, rough-and-tumble baseball team in a California mining town enlists the help of a quick-witted twelve-year-old orphan and the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid to win a big game against the National League Champion Chicago White Stockings. Prequel to: The boy who saved baseball.
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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
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the early 1900s, a wild little girl nicknamed Squirrel meets John Muir, later to become a famous naturalist, when he arrives at her parents' hotel in Yosemite Valley seeking work and knowledge about the natural world.
7) Boom town
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After her family moves to California where her father goes to work in the gold fields, Amanda decides to make her own fortune baking pies and she encourages others to provide the necessary services--from a general store to a school--that enables her town to prosper.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A series of letters and newspaper articles reveals life in California in the 1850s, especially for thirteen-year-old Eldora, who was raised in Massachusetts as an orphan only to meet her influential mother in San Francisco, and Luke, who hopes to find a fortune in gold.