num_pages: 304
description: Newbery Award-winning author Susan Patron brings her talents to the beloved Dear America series in this exciting story of a girl growing up in the Wild West in a California gold mining town.Growing up in the wild gold-mining town of Bodie California in the 1880s Angeline Reddy has seen it all -- saloons brawls and a whole lot of desperation. When her father Bodie's greatest lawyer is declared murdered Angie knows deep in her heart that he isn't dead and decides it is up to her to solve the mystery of what happened to him. But when her mother takes ill and a mysterious ghost appears putting together the puzzle pieces seems impossible. Not to mention a gang of vigilantes the 601 is raging out of control running folks out of town and nobody seems safe.Will Angie with the help of her friends Ellie and Ling Loi and the mysterious and tragically handsome Antoine be able to uncover the secret of her father's disappearance?
language: None
title: Behind the Masks: The Diary of Angeline Reddy, Bodie, California, 1880
publisher: Scholastic Inc.