num_pages: 436
description: Gold is in my blood in my breath even in the flecks in my eyes.Lee Westfall has a strong loving family. She has a home she loves and a loyal steed. She has a best friendwho might want to be something more.She also has a secret.Lee can sense gold in the world around her. Veins deep in the earth. Small nuggets in a stream. Even gold dust caught underneath a fingernail. She has kept her family safe and able to buy provisions even through the harshest winters. But what would someone do to control a girl with that kind of power? A person might murder for it.When everything Lee holds dear is ripped away she flees west to Californiawhere gold has just been discovered. Perhaps this will be the one place a magical girl can be herself. If she survives the journey.The acclaimed Rae Carson begins a sweeping new trilogy set in Gold Rush-era America about a young woman with a powerful and dangerous gift.
language: English
title: Walk on Earth a Stranger
publisher: Greenwillow Books