Walking up a rainbow
By: Theodore Taylor.
Publisher: Avon Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780380725922
Subjects: Voyages and travels -- Fiction.; Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Fiction.; Orphans -- Fiction.; Authors, American -- North Carolina.; United States -- Social life and customs -- 1783-1865 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In 1852, a fourteen-year-old orphan and her elderly guardian, accompanied by a tough drover and his crew, take several thousand sheep from Iowa to California, returning by ship through the Panama Canal, to raise money to save the girl's home from a villainous debt collector.