218 pages
English language
Published March 18, 1998 by Harper Trophy.
The ballad of Lucy Whipple
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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."
Subjects
- Frontier and pioneer life -- California -- Fiction
- California -- Gold discoveries -- Fiction