num_pages: 218
description: Dear Gram and Grampop, Please do not address yours truly as California anymore, California Morning Whipple being a foolish name for a duck much less a girl. I call myself Lucy now. I cannot hate California and be California. I know you will understand.California doesn't suit Lucy Whipple—not the name, not the place. But moving out West to Lucky Diggins, California, was her mama's dream-come-true. And now her brother, Butte, and sisters, Prairie and Sierra, seem to be Westerners at heart, too. For Lucy, Lucky Diggins is hardly a town at all—just a bunch of ramshackle tents and tobacco-spitting miners. Even the gold her mama claimed was just lying around in the fields isn't panning out. Worst of all, there's no lending library! Dag diggety! So Lucy vows to be plain miserable until she can hightail it back East where she belongs. But Lucy California Morning Whipple may be in for a surprise--because home is a lot closer than she thinks...
language: English
title: The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
titlecomplete: The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
genres: Fiction, Historical, Family, Adventure, Juvenile, Young Adult, Middle Grade, American History, Childrens, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 2656
places: California, The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: John and Patricia Beatty Award
publisher: HarperTrophy