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Author
Series
Publisher
Flash Point/Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces young readers to the history of the California gold rush, describing the journey to California, the process of panning for gold, and the fortunes that this gold brought many different people.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 24
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Escucha ahora este 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
...Author
Series
Gold seer trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a dangerous billionaire intends to use Lee, her fiancée Jefferson, and their magical friends for his own nefarious ends, they decide to fight back before the landscape of California can be altered forever.
Author
Series
Gold seer trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
After surviving her journey to California, Lee, who can sense the presence of gold, finds herself kidnapped by her Uncle Hiram, a man who will do anything to possess Lee and her supernatural talent.
Author
Publisher
The University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Troubadour on the Road to Gold is a true, western adventure story with lots of action and rich detail. William Lorton's spritely, detailed, and insightful journal is a delight, yet moving at the same time. He gives insight rarely found in a young man into daily trail life from the Mississippi River to southern California, by way of Salt Lake City, in the early gold rush of 1849. Additional information is added in his letters from the trail to The...
Publisher
Distributed by Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Fullscreen version.
Language
English
Description
A handsome, two-fisted pharmacist moves from Boston to Sacramento during the gold rush. Although he endears himself to the community by acting as a doctor, he tangles with the towns unscupulous political bosses. He becomes engaged to a wealthy woman from San Francisco, but discovers in the end that he loves the local dance hall singer.
14) Gold rush girl
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Victoria (Tory) Blaisdell longs to live a life as adventurous and independent as that of her heroine, Jan Eyre. When Tory's father loses his job and decides to seek a share of the newly discovered gold in California, Tory stows away on the westbound ship carrying her father and younger brother, Jacob. Though San Francisco is mud-caked, frenzied, and full of wild and dangerous men, Tory quickly finds friends and independence until her father leaves...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Explores the California Gold Rush by examining the causes leading up to it and the immediate and lasting effects it had on the people and places involved"--Provided by publisher.
16) Winds of promise
Author
Series
Wayward wind volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson Publishers
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Author
Series
Saga of the Sierras volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Born of missionary parents in Hawaii, David has a variety of adventures that take him from a job on a whaling ship to the California gold mines.
18) The forty-niners
Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
c1974
Language
English
Description
An account of the California gold rush of 1849 and the people who participated, lavishly illustrated with contemporary photographs and paintings.
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