The ballad of Lucy Whipple
By: by Karen Cushman.
Edition: 1st Harper Trophy ed.
Publisher: Harper Trophy
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- California -- Fiction; California -- Gold discoveries -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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."
Notes: Originally published: New York : Clarion Books, 1996.

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